All Steve Jobs's horses and all Steve Jobs's men ...

Just hours after Apple released iOS 4.1 to great fanfare, hardware hackers found a way to jailbreak devices that run the new operating system. More surprising still, there doesn't appear to be anything Steve Jobs can do to stop them in the near future.…

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Sergey Brin gets in your head

Analysis Google is on a mission to make web search as fast as the human brain will allow. On Wednesday morning in San Francisco, as she unveiled Google Instant, a radical overhaul of the company's search engine that updates search results as you type, uber-Googler Marissa Mayer called it "search at the speed of thought." We can safely classify that as an exaggeration for effect, but Mayer's bon mot at least gets to the heart of Google's intentions.…

Founders sing a new Songza

Digital music site Amie Street has been bought by Amazon, but the founders of the user-fueled music service aren't abandoning their efforts to bring social networking to music lovers.…

Waledac's 276 domain names seized

A federal magistrate judge has recommended that Microsoft be given ownership of 276 internet addresses used to control “Waledac,” a massive botnet that the software company has been working to bring down.…

Trestles gives Opteron 6100s some love

Appro International, the upstart HPC cluster maker, has got another big order from its biggest customer, the San Diego Supercomputer Center.…

CouchIO no more

NoSQL start-up CouchIO is targeting mobile and clouds after just a year of trying to monetize the company's CouchDB document store.…

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Eat or be eaten

The global economy might not be on the mend as much as we would like, but there are plenty of IT behemoths sitting on big bags of cash, and tongues are a-wagging today about data warehousing appliance maker Netezza and security and systems software maker Symantec both being possible takeover targets.…

No mitigations for click-and-get-hacked exploit

Researchers have uncovered sophisticated attack code circulating on the net that exploits a critical vulnerability in the most recent version of Adobe Reader.…

Shares and $10m bonus topper upper in play

Mark Hurd will take a 25 per cent pay cut to work for Larry Ellison — if HP fails in its legal maneuver to block the Oracle CEO's audacious hire.…

Old devices need not apply

Apple has released iOS 4.1, which Steve Jobs outlined in his presentation one week ago, during which he also introduced Cupertino's new iPods, revamped Apple TV, and iTunes-based music sales social networking effort, Ping.…

Results rejig as you type

Updated Update: This story has been continually updated with additional info from Google's press event.…

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Honey, I shrunk the ProLiants

Hewlett-Packard is keen on scaring up some business at small and medium businesses, and today will dust off the old MicroServer brand from Digital Equipment and slap it on a new entry ProLiant x64 server aimed expressly at cheapskates who don't want or need a full-on ProLiant tower, rack, or blade box.…

Ejected CEO joins Ellison

Oh dear HP, what have you done, what Pandora's box have you opened to unleash terror and despair on yourself?…

Er, too late, probably. Sorry

A new survey reveals that the majority of Brits don't want regulations on in-flight calling relaxed... a shame since those regulations were relaxed more than two years ago.…

Jailbreakers beware

Hackers at the iPhone Dev Team believe Apple will begin pushing out iOS 4.1 today - and have warned anyone keen to jailbreak their handset to leave the update well alone.…

Is this an invite to a necktie party, Reverend?

Google’s search engine doodle turned from the somewhat troublesome bouncy balls to a shade of chrome today in the build-up to the company’s web search event in San Francisco.…

Fans treated to 1.5GB of 0s

Top marks to BioWare which yesterday pumped out a downloadable module for Mass Effect 2. The only problem: the DLC comprised nothing but zeros - all 1.5GB of it.…

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But it'll kill all the bees and then we'll all die!

Ofcom has decided to let 3G networks up their broadcast power, but only by half of what it had proposed: for the sake of 3 rather than the bees.…

Vulture Central welcomes new asinine arrival

The IT angle obsessionists among you are not going to like this one bit, but we're delighted to announce that El Reg's Iberian Bureau today welcomed a new member to the Vulture Central fold, in the form of a small but perfectly-formed donkey foal, or buche, as they're known in these parts.…

Network to punt Samsung Android tablet

Three has become the latest UK operator to tout tablets: specifically Samsung's Android-based Galaxy Tab.…

Project reopening to tender

The Home Office paid more than £37m to just one consultancy for advice on the e-Borders contract, which was torn up by the coalition after the election.…

Sounds like a subdural hematoma to me

Google has created an atmosphere of McCarthyism and a postage stamp-sized image of what the hell the world will look like if us hacks use the firm's latest creepy tool, dubbed Scribe.…

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Sperm donation no excuse for viewing smut

A right-leaning Health think tank has condemned the NHS for spending £700 a year on porn to assist male visitors to fertility clinics to produce samples.…

Aims for fairness across the pond

The controversial extradition treaty between the US and the UK is to be reviewed by the government.…

Boffins still sceptical of alien/Elvis involvement

In blockbusting news, a NASA spacecraft has discovered a bridge wide enough to carry a two-lane road on the far side of the Moon.…

Overcharging claims settled

Cisco Systems and distie Westcon Group North America, owned by South African firm Datatec, are to pay $48m to end an investigation by the US Department of Justice into overcharging.…

Denies blaming CIA for 'smear'

Julian Assange has requested a new lawyer to represent him during a rape investigation in Sweden because his previous brief, Leif Silbersky, was not engaged enough with the case.…

Due early 2011

EMC will introduce a new mid-range storage product in early 2011. EMC's chief financial officer, David Goulden, said the new product will refresh the low end of EMC's mid-range storage array product portfolio, currently supplied with CLARiiON and Celerra products.…

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Drive-by download guard

Tuesday marked a busy day for alternative browser security updates with patches from both Apple and Mozilla.…

Herbal belch-squelch method also offers milky bonus

A bovo-boffin in Pennsylvania says he has saved life on planet Earth from being gradually stifled into extinction by burgeoning clouds of cattle-belch methane. The solution is apparently to feed cows oregano.…

Section 19. Nanananana..........

The problem of police decision-making on who is permitted to take photographs of what is highlighted again in a disturbing incident at the weekend, where film was seized at an anti-fascist protest in Brighton.…

We'll sell 10m in a year, predicts exec

Watch out, Apple, Samsung wants your market share. The South Korean giant has forecast that its Galaxy Tab 7in Android tablet will have gathered a third of the slate market by this time next year.…

Doomsday Weekend 3: sometimes a god complex isn't a bad idea

Sysadmin blog Many sysadmins among us certainly have a god complex. The truth is, no matter how well-prepared for a large project we try to be, we can't control our users.…

Be happy, and hand over your memory to Google

Eric Schmidt did his best to raise the bar on his harshest critics yesterday, by telling an audience in Berlin that "we know where you are, we know what you like".…

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What's Finnish for Jesus?

Strong operator demand for new kit from Nokia means the company may be emerging from its darkest period in modern history, according to a report from Morgan Stanley.…

Email salary details to everyone ploy foiled

A court has ordered a UK hacker to pay compensation after he used a purloined laptop to hack into his ex-employer's personnel database.…

250GB bundle

Microsoft has priced up the Xbox 360 Kinect bundle it's hoping will tempt console-less consumers when the motion control tech launches on 10 November.…

Fast access to priority bookings

O2 has been tempting existing and potential customers with the carrot of early access to event bookings for some time. Now it's made getting hold of tickets easier.…

Cheaper flash storage array drives

The march of MLC flash into mainstream enterprise storage took another step forward today as Pliant launched its Enterprise Flash Disk (EFD) products.…

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CSC gets a pittance

Connecting for Health spent £470m with BT last year, more than twice as much as went to CSC.…

A bundle of Windows 7 joy

It looks like someone didn't get the deal done in time for the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza last week. Today, server wannabe and networking giant Cisco Systems and virtualization player Citrix Systems will announce their first partnership, bundling up the XenDesktop Swiss army knife of desktop and application virtualization on Cisco's "California" Unified Computing System blade servers.…

BlackBerry chalks up another acquisition

BlackBerry maker RIM has apparently bought out DataViz, publisher of the popular Documents To Go, in a deal worth $50m in cash.…

Turning a tidy profit on the deal

Vodafone is planning to raise $4.3bn selling its stake in China Mobile, and will be handing most of the cash to its shareholders.…

Did dodgy battery cause £350,000 of damage?

A retired schools inspector is suing her former employer because her work laptop allegedly set fire to to her thatched cottage, causing £350,000 of damage.…

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Much in demand, apparently

Nokia's N8 smartphone will go on sale at the end of this month priced at £429 for the SIM-free version, the Finnish phone giant said today.…

Five thousand fixes in three weeks

In the three weeks following its offer to replace the batteries in overheating first-generation iPod nanos, Apple Japan swapped out a total of 4,994 suspect cells.…

Like Unity. Like Titanium

Much like the San Francisco-based startup Unity, Appcelerator has asked Apple if iPhone applications coded with its dev kit violate the new Jobsian rule against the use of languages other than Objective C, C, or C++. And like Unity, Appcelerator hasn't received an answer.…

The Great Lost Jukebox turns up in captivity

Review Best known today for its mobile phones, Nokia has released a connected jukebox at a knock down price. Nokia Home Music is an unusual beast: essentially it's a radio – primarily an Internet radio – built around a giant mono 10W speaker, but there's a Swiss Army knife selection of I/O options for getting music in and out of the box.…

Wielding the executioner's axe for Ellison

Comment It's going to be a long time before Oracle can take on the likes of HP and IBM for the IT-market crown. But before he retires, you can bet Larry Ellison's last billion bucks that he most surely wants to become the dominant systems supplier in the data center.…

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Monday unveiling

At next week's Intel Developer Forum, Chipzilla will unveil its long-awaited Sandy Bridge microarchitecture — and the more we learn about it, the more it appears to share with AMD's oh-so-late Fusion effort.…

Drops 60s psychedelia API

Mozilla has released a fifth Firefox 4 beta, offering graphics hardware acceleration on Windows and a new API that lets site developers code pages that visually display audio data inside the browser.…

When infringement is big business

A copyright enforcement service has filed a lawsuit seeking $150,000 from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle for posting two newspaper articles without authorization.…

BP spilled $3.6m in Gulf spin campaign

Following its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP went from spending about $57,000 a month on Google search ads to an enormous $3.6 million outlay for the month of June alone, according to a report citing internal Google documents.…

'We don't want him. But you can't have him'

Hewlett-Packard has sued disgraced former chief executive Mark Hurd in an effort to stop him from joining Oracle.…

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6,671 travelers searched (so far)

Privacy advocates have sued the Obama administration over its practice of seizing laptops, cell phones, and other devices at US borders and copying their contents even when the owner isn't suspected of wrongdoing.…

Foundem claims 'diversionary straw man tactics'

Foundem — the UK-based vertical search outfit involved in antitrust investigations of Google in both Texas and the European Union — has responded to Google's account of the Texas probe, accusing the Mountain View search giant of "diversionary 'straw man' tactics."…

Kindle online game player?

Amazon has poached one of the brains behind Microsoft's fabulously successful Xbox and Xbox Live, hinting at a rival cloud-based gaming strategy.…

One-click vuln 'ridiculously easy to attack'

Twitter has been bitten by a hard-to-kill web-application bug that's being actively exploited to steal users' authentication credentials, a security expert said Tuesday.…

We keep Highfield, you can have Danker

The cross-pollination of Microsoft and the BBC's iPlayer continued yesterday, with Auntie confirming it had hired Redmond's IPTV platform Mediaroom and Zune wonk.…

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Magic quantum opti-chip can be made in normal fab, too

Optical stuff is great, as everyone knows: optical links mean huge bandwidth right now, and computers running on photons rather than electrons might be truly amazing things - tremendously powerful, very economical of energy, and potentially able to exploit quantum effects to achieve all manner of mindbending feats.…

Xeon blade and rack boxes for telcos and hosters

It is not a coincidence that Oracle is paying close attention to the Netra server lineup since taking over Sun Microsystems back in January. Telecommunications companies and service providers of various sorts still have lots Sparc/Solaris iron installed, and it is here where Oracle must build a defensive perimeter and hold the line with its Netra products.…

Oh merde

Nikolas Sarkozy has become the latest high profile victim of a Google bomb, after bloggers linked his Facebook page to the phrase "trou du cul".…

Coverage more important than rural idyll, says quango

The Commission For Rural Communities is calling for less restrictive planning laws to encourage comms networks to build out, for the sake of the rural economy.…

Careful with that dope

El Reg's Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team continues to work on the Vulture 1-X aircraft structure, while attempting to refine the skinning process.…

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Copyright coppers go after P2P servers

Swedish police raided several addresses this morning, including an ISP linked to Wikileaks, while assisting a Belgian file-sharing probe.…

'Lambs to the slaughter'

Distracted Oz pedestrians are allegedly dropping like flies to "Death by iPod" - an untimely end provoked by walking out into traffic while in a "zombie trance".…

Greedy sprats

Fraudsters have wasted no time jumping on news of a tax mix-up in the UK as a hook for scams.…

Wikileaks has had enough

Criticism of Wikileaks mouthpiece Julian Assange is growing, with more voices joining the chorus calling for him to step aside while his various Swedish legal problems are sorted out.…

Double standards

Analysis "You want computers to discover each other and just share stuff," I recall Steve Jobs saying back in 2002, as he personally demonstrated wireless music streaming at an Apple developer event.…

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To be dubbed Oooh-Arrr-2-D2, no doubt

In a triumph for West Country technical prowess and engineering knowhow, NASA has ordered a robot made in Cornwall. Here's a vid:…

Official ITA Software merger investigation underway - report

The US Justice Department has reportedly opened an official probe into Google's recent proposed buyout of ITA Software to see if the acquisition would be anti-competitive.…

Share this

Spammers have taken advantage of a vulnerability in Facebook to spread auto-replicating links, a trick that makes it possible to spread crud without using social engineering.…

Ready for prime time?

Webcast Our pals at the HPC Advisory Council have been busy in the past few months and it seemed time to tap them for an update, in our September HPC Community webcast.…

Fuggedaboutit?

Review A few hours into Mafia II and it finally happens. It's the summer of 1951 and you've just been released from an eight-year stretch in Sing Sing. You're cruising around the wide, pristine streets of Empire Bay - the game's fictional amalgam of New York, Chicago and San Fransico – when all of a sudden you hear the unmistakable pow of saxophones and horns in the intro for Ain't That a Kick in the Head.…

Doomsday Weekend 2: Trevor Pott and the Domain of Fire

Sysadmin Blog On Doomsday Weekend we completely replaced our Windows domain. It was a miserable experience. It’s hard to describe how much work is involved in replacing a mature domain; certainly more than I had anticipated. It's even harder to explain the hell to non-sysadmins.…

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Gov officials just doing their job, ma'am

Government officials hit back at accusations last week that they were encouraging councils to break the law and snoop on local residents, claiming instead that not only are they entitled to do so, but that they are required to by law.…

Supplier diversity could suffer

More than three-quarters of businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are looking to consolidate their existing IT infrastructure in the next 12 months, according to Brocade-commissioned research.…

Civil servants throw cash at Google and friends

The Department for Work and Pensions has spent more than £1.1m on search engine biasing over the last four years.…

What a balls-up

Google's latest animated logo on its search homepage has caused a kerfuffle among many surfers whose CPU has been besieged by the ballsy doodle.…

NSFW in NSW

Another day, another God-fearing Australian politician is accused of surfing hardcore adult websites.…

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Is that a light at the end of...

Veteran distributor Northamber allowed itself a glimmer of optimism today as it unveiled its preliminary full year results.…

Software upgrade available... if you know where to look

Panasonic has quietly rolled out a software update for its 2009 series of internet-connectable HD TVs. The patch usefully adds BBC iPlayer and - perhaps less so - a Twitter client.…

Public sector down, private sector not really up

The UK jobs market is unlikely to get any better this year - public sector jobs are falling and private sector posts are barely growing.…

Blocks homebrew hack?

Sony UK has posted PlayStation 3 firmware version 3.42. The update incorporates a "patch... added to address security vulnerability in the system software".…

New results 'deviate sharply' from established wisdom

The rate at which ice is disappearing from Greenland and Western Antarctica has been seriously overestimated, according to new research.…

Gotta wait until 3 Oct, though

Google announced that it tweaked its privacy policy last Friday, just hours after a satirical video ad appeared on a huge screen in New York's Times Square that poked fun at the firm's boss.…

Oh, God

TechCrunch Europe has cleaned up its website following the discovery of malicious code that left visiting surfers exposed to infection by a variant of the infamous Zeus banking Trojan.…

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Android fluffs it again

Dell's Streak might now be running Android 2.1, but those who've upgraded are finding the newer OS takes away more than it adds to the tablet/phone crossbreed.…

Optimus line primed

LG is to power a series of smartphones with Nvidia's tablet-oriented dual-core Tegra 2 system-on-a-chip.…

Big Chill founder launches a members' social network

Sick of creepy, unaccountable social networks that are little more than hoarders and traders of personal information? Pete Lawrence, founder of the Big Chill Festival is too, and will today unveil his plans a member-supported service.…

Outlook and Office-aware

Three-year-old start-up Druva is opening an office in the UK and delivering global deduplicating backup software for laptops. It's Outlook and Office-aware to reduce network transmission loads and provide user self-service restores, which Druva says Avamar cannot.…

Big savings from little projects

The Network for the Post Bureaucratic Age has published a paper urging the government to break down its IT projects into smaller chunks.…

Ouch

Samsung's upcoming 7in Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab, is beginning to be priced up by retailers ahead of its anticipated arrival next month. Alas, it looks like it'll be a pricey offering.…

You had your chance, Labour

I must confess that I find it rich that New Labour Ministers, who were in government for more than a decade, are now huffing and puffing about their “phone inboxes being hacked”. The sad truth is that, in government, they could have done a great deal to protect individual privacy by making such hacking a custodial offence.…

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Shaky second quarter

The gap between EMC and Symantec storage software revenues is widening, according to IDC's worldwide quarterly Storage Software Tracker.…

Optimum income for joie de vivre

US researchers have found that happiness can be yours for an income of $75k a year (or £48,814.44 as of this morning), although trousering more than that won't necessarily increase your joie de vivre.…

Pan-EU patent court a good thing

The European Court of Justice should reject the opinion of its advisors and put pragmatic economics ahead of legal technicalities and approve a pan-EU patent court, the UK patent attorneys' trade body has said.…

Aural excitement

Review Renowned for it high-end hi-fi, Bowers and Wilkins’ decision to make headphones is a bit of a departure for the company. At first glance, its debut set of cans, the P5s, certainly appear an impressive addition to its respected range of audio porn.…

The cougar gets it

DigiTimes thinks Intel could add a USB 3.0 host controller to its Cougar motherboard reference design.…

Phillips replaced by Larry tennis buddy

Ex-HP CEO Mark Hurd has been named co-president at Oracle.…

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Skywriter goes Javascript

Mozilla's Bespin project – an open source effort to build a web-based code editor – has been rechristened Skywriter, and its official repository has been moved to GitHub so that developers can more easily fork the project.…

Stuff for web monkeys, iPad junkies, EE flunkies

Part three: This – the third installment of apps for admins, coders and geeks – is our final foray into demonstrably useful apps for Apple's "magical and revolutionary" tablet.…

Future chips: extreme, ultraviolet & metal

GTC 2010 According to AMD-spinoff GlobalFoundries, chip-baking is about to hit a wall — but they're ready for it. They also claim that their way of handling the latest advance in chip materials is superior to that used by Intel and soon to be introduced by their ginormous competitor, TSMC.…

URL shortening shenanigans

Microsoft is investigating reports of a new bug in Internet Explorer.…

On-board internet access service goes live

East Midlands Trains has rolled out wireless internet access to its rolling stock.…

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Click here for hot ass action

It's only September, but we feel pretty confident that the El Reg 2010 Product Name of the Year will be awarded to the spectacularly-titled BumChum - a silent bass drum monitoring system which promises lively "bottom-end thump".…

But US gets first handset

Vodafone has announced its 4G roll-out for Germany, though it seems it'll be Americans making the first 4G phone call.…

And you can too...

What a brilliant idea for a competition! Nokia has hired Pamela Anderson and Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick to appear in The Commuter a short film short shot entirely on the not-quite-launched Nokia N8 - and you can appear in it too.…

More fun than a Stattenheim Remote Control?

Good news for budding Doctors: there will be a sonic screwdriver-style remote out in time for upcoming Wii title Doctor Who: Return to Earth.…

Bad weather hits supplies hard

There's some grim news today for those kids who are still allowed to play conkers, albeit in full body armour with helmet and visor: the crap summer weather has caused a "real shortage of serviceable conkers".…

No jets involved, nor is it a pack. 'Blower-throne'?

A New Zealand company founded by a garage inventor says it is in talks to sell its so-called "Jetpack" - actually a personal ducted-fan aircraft too heavy to be lifted by its user - to the US military.…

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Part one of Doomsday Weekend: who can you trust?

Sysadmin blog As sysadmins, we have to test before we deploy. We need to test before even upgrading a driver. We should test absolutely everything before a major deployment. It seems obvious. It is obvious.…

Malware monitoring tech draws official ire

Christopher Graham, the Information Commissioner, has rebuked TalkTalk for following its 4.2 million customers around the web without telling them.…

It's such a bungle, sometimes, it makes you wonder...

Symantec has belatedly secured its laughable HackIsWack competition website.…

Action over inaction against Youth Justice Board

Children's Rights Group ARCH has threatened to take the Information Commissioner to a judicial review after the data regulator declined to take enforcement action the Youth Justice Board for unlawfully collecting and distributing data.…

My crappy component inferno: our first reader audio blog

World of Reg If you're mad as hell and you're not going to take this any more, if you're blissfully happy and can't wait to tell the world, or if you're just tired of listening to product marketing managers who don't know what it's like to get your hands dirty, now's your chance. Don't rant in the pub: share it with millions of Reg readers instead.…

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Monster laser-planes ready to blind US satellites?

Reports suggest that Russia has re-started work on a Cold War project intended to produce a laser cannon mounted on an enormous military transport aircraft in the style of the USA's Airborne Laser Testbed 747.…

Save our sensitive souls

Craigslist has bowed to pressure and stopped access to erotic services ads for its sensitive US customers.…

Posh property presenter pwned

iPad scammers managed to reach a huge potential audience last weekend after they took over a Twitter profile maintained by British TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp.…

Marrying IT to HPC

Workshop Many people tend to associate High Performance Computing (HPC) with exotic supercomputers with esoteric CPUs, high-end networking and storage fabrics, and custom applications simulating nuclear explosions, virtually crash-testing cars or designing the aerodynamics of the latest jetliner.…

Gesticulating at the telly will actually make things happen!

Movea, the company behind the Gyration Air Mouse, is pushing into television with a module for adding gesture control to the humble zapper.…

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Zeven deadly sins

Scareware peddlers have developed a new ruse that relies on mimicking browser warning pages.…

'Futuristic neo-noir' action flick promised

Those of you still recovering from Sylvester Stallone's 1995 interpretation of Judge Dredd will have to wait until 2012 to see if Karl Urban can make a better hash of bringing the classic 2000 AD character to the silver screen.…

Demand for Symbian is 'invisible'

Samsung is focus on Android and Bada for its smartphones after claiming there is no demand for Symbian phones and only "specialised" demand for Windows Phone 7.…

Commies unleash filth on primary school innocents

Kids at the Adolf Reichwein School in Essen got an unexpected treat on the first day at primary school: porn-projecting pens provided by the German Communist Party.…

The jury's still out

VMworld VMware is taking some big steps in the security and network management arena with its vShield product set. I sat in on a deepish dive into the somewhat new security products being offered by VMware to deliver on the ‘secure’ part of their “Secure Hybrid Cloud” initiative.…

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Mind how you go

A 46 year-old woman wearing headphones was run over and killed by an ambulance in Sydney, Australia at the weekend. Police think she may not have heard the sirens.…

Gentlemen, start your downloads

O2 has updated its version of the Dell Streak 5in internet tablet - reviewed here - to Android 2.1.…

Inter-network roaming imminent

Orange and T-Mobile customers will be able to roam freely between the two networks from 5 October, as the companies consolidate their morph into Everything Everywhere.…

Gadget's manufacturer identified

The Australian Federal Court has maintained the injunction banning four local retailers from importing and selling the PSJailbreak USB dongle that allows PS3s to play pirated games.…

Don't call it creative

If Google is trying to shake off its reputation for a pathological hostility to creative businesses, then at least one senior policy hasn't got the memo. Google's UK policy chief called for Government to give creative industries the bum's rush last week - arguing that Britain's retailers were just as important.…

'Ere... wanna buy a high-ranking disk drive operation?

Opinion Hitachi is reported to be considering an IPO or sale of Hitachi GST, its disk drive operation, ranked third in the industry behind Seagate and Western Digital. How much is it worth? Who would want to buy it?…

Keychain cops

A memory stick containing anti-terror training manuals and other sensitive material was reportedly found on a street outside a Manchester police station.…

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And he's back in the room

Mark Hurd, pushed from the top job at HP after allegations of sexual harassment and misfiling of expenses, is about to get a board post at Oracle.…

Family favourite?

Review Those who want their notebook PCs to play music and video while managing a burgeoning digital image collection should cast an eye at the HP Pavilion dv6-3085ea. It's an attractively slim computer with a design outline that's generally reminiscent of Apple's MacBook Pro. The clamshell even stays closed thanks to Apple-style magnets, instead of a conventional sliding catch.…

But does it really need it?

Comment Intel has embarked on a major shopping spree to counter the pressures on its traditional businesses, which prompted it to issue a results warning at the end of last week. That was swiftly followed by the announcement that it would acquire Infineon‘s wireless arm, as widely expected, for $1.4bn, hard on the heels of the purchase of security software firm McAfee.…

The price of a Tweetbookish Gmail mod

Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of Gmail users when it released Google Buzz, a Gmail bolt-on that turned the email service into a Tweetbookish social networking tool.…

Betcha.com craps out

Washington state's highest court has delivered a fatal blow to a website that billed itself as a person-to-person betting platform that connected people who wanted to make wagers.…

EU complaint echoed in US

Google is facing an antitrust investigation in Texas over claims the company unfairly manipulated results on its search engine.…

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Balls of steel, baby, balls of steel!

Duke Nukem Forever is the video games world's equivalent of the flying car: mothballed in the garage.…

Beta mongoose flaunts new face

Review Ubuntu fans, fire up your virtual machines. The beta release of Ubuntu 10.10 is here. Maverick Meerkat, as this release is known, is actually several weeks ahead of the original schedule, and that means Ubuntu 10.10 is on track for its final release October 10.…

Music to watch monsters go by

Love Doctor Who, love the theme music - this is hardwired into the DNA of most Brits.…

Un-Flash eyes world of Google

Steve Jobs forbids you from building iPhone applications with a language other than Objective C, C, or C++. If that other language is Adobe Flash. What about if it's not Adobe Flash? Are you still forbidden?…

Hunting 'mugu' in America

A Nigerian man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in US prison for orchestrating an advance payment scam that bilked victims out of more than $1.3m.…

Gay Fun your life must be...

An Oz primary school head is taking a bit of stick after insisting that kiddies should not follow the exact letter of Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree.…

Can you handle the truth?

In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics and mobile communications.…

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That's Doctor Brown to you, says unemployed PM

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has buddied up with the Greatest Living Briton by becoming a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.…

The opposite of NIL desperandum

Seagate may be facing the abandonment of a favoured future technology as the price for hard disk drive (HDD) industry unity.…

'I've lost the ball again...'

Football minnows Bulgaria face an uphill struggle in their forthcoming clash with England, because not only will they confront some of the most talented, hard-working and successful players in the history of the beautiful game, but their opponents will be clad in a new strip created by former Joy Division designer Peter Saville.…

Evolution and management of the client computing environment

Let's face it, the desktop and laptop environment is one of the major points at which the rubber meets the road when it comes to business computing.…

Joins BoA and Visa in trials

Wells Fargo is joining the effort spearheaded by Visa to help NFC break in the difficult American market.…

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Run for your lives, kids. The ice cream man is coming!

Eric Schmidt has been portrayed as a depraved privacy pervert by the US-based ConsumerWatchdog.org, which is running an advert in New York’s Times Square that mocks the Google boss.…

June and July not as bad as all that

The US Department of Labor kicked out its monthly jobs report, and there's some good news for once. First of all, private sector employers added 67,000 jobs last month, although the overall economy shed 54,000 jobs as the federal government winds down the 2010 census and lays off temporary workers hired to count heads.…

Execution wins. Not ideas

Open...and Shut Businesses aren't built on ideas. They're built on execution. Google didn't win because it was the first to the search market. It won because it did search better than anyone else, and devised an ingenious way to monetize it.…

Nicht ein biggie

German hackers successfully used off-the-shelf kit to extract personal data from the federal government's supposedly secure ID cards, but the government has downplayed the significance of the attack.…

Follow that photo!

An update for the TomTom app on the iPhone is "coming soon".…

12 months for CD & USB shenanigans

Ex-MI6 worker Daniel Houghton has been sentenced to 12 months in prison for unlawfully disclosing top secret material, in breach of the Official Secrets Act.…

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Has it lost the war on OTT video?

Comment This is the day that Apple lost the war for Over The Top content, not only in America, but globally. The winner can’t yet be announced, but this was the shot that Apple had to get it right, and to us it’s bungled it.…

Coming soon: Hypobaric chamber - The Revisiting

The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team is preparing to turn down the pressure with a second visit to Qinetiq's hypobaric chamber.…

Also: New vid of unsold P-791 Walrus suck-belly ship

US aero-weapons goliath Lockheed, builder of the famous P-791 airship prototype, was beaten to a half-billion-dollar deal to supply spy ships above Afghanistan earlier this year - but the firm is still marketing its P-791 technology aggressively.…

IBM looking peaky

IDC's latest quarterly disk storage tracker shows EMC and HP competing for the market lead, with EMC growing faster than HP. NetApp is growing faster still but has a lot of ground to make up.…

El Reg is hiring

Situation Publishing, owner of The Register and Reg Hardware, is looking for a full time developer to primarily work on HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript/jQuery and template engines such as XSLT and Perl’s Template Toolkit.…

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Drops unwanted code in open source developer laps

Google has boxed up its unsuccessful Wave project and handed the unwanted code to open source developers.…

More like 2013

Toshiba may be gearing up to release a no-specs 3D TV in Japan by the end of the year, but Philips' 3D TV development partner reckons we will have to wait longer. It doesn't reckon any vendor will have one out before 2013.…

Snazzy new social thing walled off

Ping, Apple's latest foray into social networking, won't play nice with Facebook - despite the connection appearing in Steve Jobs's on-stage demonstration and in the documentation.…

Qi gets branded products

The wireless power consortium, Qi, is celebrating the launch of a solution with a known brand - Energizer - attached, but the technology is still a long way from the mainstream.…

Celeb Taoist conman on the run

A celebrity Taoist monk has gone awol after it was revealed he probably couldn't in reality sit crossed-legged under water for two hours.…

For OS fence-sitters

Here is ViewSonic's other Android-based tablet, though here the Google OS is secondary to Windows 7.…

£194m shelled out

Capgemini has bought a 55 per cent stake in Brazilian reseller CPM Braxis for £194m.…

Europe's stuck in the mud, says former Ofcom head, comms czar

Lord Stephen Carter, the founding head of Ofcom whose blockbuster report provided the basis for the Digital Economy Act, made a return to the public stage this week.…

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But no Gigabit performance just yet

Netgear has announced what may well be the world's first consumer networking products based on the as-yet-unratified IEEE P1910 next-gen powerline Ethernet standard.…

Quick off the mark

Spammers have been quick off the mark in exploiting Apple's new iTunes social network to punt survey scams.…

Apple flavoured?

More laptops have been announced at the IFA show by Samsung. This time it's the "premium" QX series - given a "airfoil design exterior" that's aluminium clad like as certain fruit-branded manufacturer's notebooks.…

Firms will just have to get used to it

The secretary general of the International Telecommunications Union has stepped into the lawful interception debate, saying that companies are just going to have to provide governments with access somehow.…

#hackiswacked

Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.…

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Yours for £12 a month

Virgin Media is offering the BlackBerry Curve 8520 - reviewed here - in what it claims os the "most competitive" pay-monthly package this smartphone can be found on.…

Worldwide recall of ball burners

Toshiba and US and Canadian consumer watchdogs are recalling three laptop models after receiving reports that people have been burned by the AC adapters.…

Prehistoric luminary's explosive antics revealed

The equivalent of a "rock star", having lived a "fast, flashy life and died young" apparently exploded with unimaginable violence in the year 161,000 BC and spewed "guts" across an enormous area. The exploding prehistoric luminary had previously ejected a "string of pearls", according to investigating boffins.…

The story that refuses to die

New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messages of an unnamed television personality.…

Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4

The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.…

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Ovi could do with the support

Nokia is backing ITV's X Factor with a dedicated application and exclusive content, but it will take more then Auto Tune to make Ovi a Christmas number one.…

PMP trickle-down effect

Review Typically, smartphones make less than satisfying PMPs, especially given the issue of video formats, with very few phones supporting the good old AVI container or Xvid/DivX codecs. Also, sound quality is usually a bit iffy and there is often little in the way of external controls for media navigation that you can use without looking.…

Remember the Googasm

Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and form data across machines.…

Mobile chips warming up as PC chips chill

While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the recent boom in chip sales would hold for a couple of quarters — and it probably won't.…

Teaching old apps new tricks

Microsoft has released a new version of a software tool that developers and administrators can use to harden older applications against common vulnerabilities.…

You rent from his cloud

Analysis With its Apple TV revamp announced Wednesday, Apple dipped its toes into the entertainment cloud — if you'll forgive a muddled metaphor. It's a tentative baby step, but expect more cloudy offerings from Cupertino if the experiment is a success.…

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'We're more consistent. And we're here'

Microsoft has tried to justify its Silverlight media player in the age of HTML5.…

Microbloggy thing tracks all links clicked

Twitter is on a mission to regain control of its own firehose.…

New charges filed in US

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has blasted Sweden's investigation into allegations against him for sexual misconduct after prosecutors reopened a probe into charges he raped a woman last month.…

Taunts estranged son

VMworld Microsoft's assault on VMware knows no bounds.…

MosKeyto flies in

Ordinary USB Flash drives to darn big for you? LaCie's new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it's connected to.…

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Safe SOX for your virtual box

VMworld Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and compliance for VMware's new vCloud Director.…

HP pumps fist

Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.…

Quaint system to be replaced in 2011

HM Revenue and Customs has warned employers who use its Employer CD-rom to update it immediately to avoid miscalculations.…

'Failio' spec?

Do computer companies never learn from history? Clearly not, if Toshiba is anything to go by. Today, it launched its Android tablet, revealing the gadget is called Folio.…

Never a flyer, but finally grounded for good

An audacious plan to provide free wireless internet access across the US has finally been killed off by the FCC, much to the delight of the cellular industry.…

Gets into mobile search (result), agrees to provide content to YouTube (not so much)

AOL has signed a deal with Google to make it the sole provider for paid text-based search and contextual ads on the company's US websites for the next five years.…

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Ping-pong

The latest version of iTunes for Windows addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, as well as adding much-publicised social networking functionality.…

Systems not robust enough

Visitors to London, and anyone else without a full account, will not be able to hire Boris bikes until the end of the year.…

Dell's new offer given drubbing

HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.…

You pay this, we take that, George Osborne gets the other, Eurocrats get the rest

Apple has made it explicitly clear how much more its charging UK consumers for its kit than US-based buyers.…

Who's got the bigger count?

Google and Apple's bush war flared up again as Steve Jobs apparently cast aspersions over Android's activation numbers as he unveiled Apple's latest iPod and TV scrub-up yesterday.…

Orange Ping sticks to sweet stuff

Apple cleared the use of the word Ping with golf company PING before using the name for its new Web2.0 music look-up feature in iTunes.…

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Fixed grins at cheeks-aflame 'leccycar firm

As US motor mammoth GM gears up for the launch of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, it has applied to trademark the term "range anxiety" - meaning the fear suffered by battery-car owners regarding their ability to get home again after a given journey. Upstart battery car maker Tesla Motors has issued a panicky and unconvincing statement in response.…

Coming clean on capacity

Review Verbatim's InSight external hard drive is an unusual-looking offering, but that odd wave-like curve at the front is home to the unit's status readout screen.…

Kiwi plods say Google's done no crime

Police in New Zealand have bounced a complaint about Google's StreetView service back to the country's Privacy Commissioner.…

0.08 cents per tag

The RFID Consortium has opened for business after five years of negotiations, providing a one-stop shop for all the patents needed to manufacture RFID tags and readers.…

Thanks for that Sherlock

It will come as no surprise to regular readers that 90 per cent of UK consumers are confused by broadband advertising - we'd have to assume the missing ten per cent are marketing bods for ISPs.…

Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma

Sysadmin blog Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.…

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Space 'lofts' to feature two-ply 'bummer shielding'

NASA says it has selected finalists in an engineering competition to design an "inflatable loft", reminiscent of the extending roofs often fitted to camper vans, but in this case intended to deploy from the roof of a "hard-shell prototype habitat" for use by astronauts on the Moon or Mars.…

Latest Android handsets shot in the wild

Video Tom Satchwell, Director of Marketing, Motorola Europe demonstrates the company's latest Android offerings, the Milestone 2 and the Defy.…

HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids

Opinion 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP's $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.…

Vodafone to sell it

Samsung has posted the spec for its upcoming Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab. And Vodafone has announced availability.…

Get off our cloud

Nokia has pulled the plug on Ovi Files, its cloud-based storage system, and told users they've got a month before the the system gets wiped.…

Now thass geekster

Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.…

Turns to IT suppliers, says 'Er, what do you think?'

Directgov has asked IT suppliers to come up with new thinking on identity verification.…

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HPC eases the strain

Here’s another “How HPC saves your worthless hide” type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.…

Get their Belvoirs mixed up

Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.…

iPads and World Cup should've been a bigger boost

DSGi shares fell very slightly this morning after the company said trading had held steady in the three months ended 24 July.…

Roberto Carlos and his amazing exponential spiral

Scientists have agreeably concluded that Roberto Carlos's 1997 free kick against France - a seemingly impossible blast into the back of the net from 115ft - was not the fluke some have claimed.…

Feel the need for it though

Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that advice, according to research released today.…

Network your mains cabling

Review I use a couple of Devolo dLAN AVplus powerline Ethernet adaptors at home, to hook up my wired-only Sony Bravia connected telly to my router. They're great adaptors, but with a pass-through three-pin power socket, they're bulky. D-Link's latest adaptor, the DHP-306AV, offers a more compact alternative.…

Somewhere between VMware and Citrix

Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you might find useful.…

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Apple admits error shock

Apple has revamped three quarters of its iPod line. Or, more accurately, it upgraded one quarter, redesigned another, took a step back in time with a third, and left the final, not-even-mentioned quarter alone.…

10 million hours of test

Windows Phone 7 is finally finished.…

More than 10,000 accounts spoofed

Federal prosecutors have uncovered a scam that used tens of thousands of cloned cellphones to defraud Sprint out of $15m in lost long distance revenue.…

Middleware union

Red Hat is in talks to buy a JBoss cloud provisioning startup called Makara, according to a source familiar with the matter.…

Straddles vSphere in search of cash

VMworld Strange bedfellows VMware and Novell have officially released SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, a version of Novell's open source OS that piggybacks on every copy of VMware's vSphere hypervisor.…

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Palm-sized Apple TV unveiled

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has unveiled the next two generations of iOS, updates that will bring multiplayer gaming and high-definition photography to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches next week and wireless printing and media streaming in November.…

Tickle me, Elmo

Supercomputer makers Cray and Silicon Graphics have done years of engineering to get their respective XE6 and Altix UV 1000 massively parallel supercomputers to market. And now, despite research funding woes among governments, research institutions, and corporations, the two companies face the challenging task of convincing customers of their prior machines to upgrade to the new iron.…

Head turned by Ruby, PHP, .NET

VMworld VMware says that its Cloud Application Platform – a means of building and deploying applications that has grown up around the SpringSource Java framework – will eventually embrace other programming languages, including Ruby-on-Rails, PHP, and perhaps .NET.…

Relief for Firefox, Nvidia, PowerPoint

Microsoft has released a software tool that helps system administrators protect PCs against a critical class of vulnerabilities found in more than 100 applications from a variety of software makers.…

America has a middle?

Wholesale 4G network LightSquared is planning to start deployment in the middle of the USA and then spread to the coasts, according to documents sent out to potential partners.…

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Partners prep brollies for November rain

Microsoft will once again overhaul its error-prone volume licensing website in November, following months of glitches with the portal since Redmond relaunched it late last year.…

24nm? It's what you do with it that counts, etc

Toshiba has started mass-producing NAND flash ships using a 2nm process, and is offering the world's smallest 8GB flash chips.…

Toast marshmallows, burn Vista

Microsoft has decided to rerun its Windows 7 Family Pack promotion, which was iced by Redmond at the end of last year.…

World-beating text entry comes to Nokia

The world's fastest text entry system, Swype, is now in Beta for Symbian S60 5th edition, allowing Nokia users to write by tracing a path rather than the old-fashioned tapping on keys.…

Lucasfilm swoop crushes opposition

Jedi Mind Inc has conceded that someone else might just own the term Jedi, and has changed its name to Mind Technologies Inc.…

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Treat yourself to a new PC before Halloween

It is looking like Friday, October 22, is going to be a fabulous day to buy a new desktop, notebook, or netbook. That's a week before Hewlett-Packard finishes its fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 and also a week before PC rival Dell completes its third quarter of its fiscal 2011.…

Homebrewers 1, Sony 0

Want a PlayStation 3 hacking dongle but worried Sony's legal fight with the gadget's suppliers will prevent you from buying one?…

Credit rating allegations? Not our job

The Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping an investigation into alleged fraudulent behaviour at ratings agency Moody's because it is not sure if it has legal jurisdiction over the company.…

Stereo 3D titles to run on your console telly

Panasonic and Ubisoft are to develop games for the consumer electronics giant's 3D TVs, the pair said today.…

Smartphones can be secure

Sysadmin blog Most of the articles about the security of Research In Motion’s Blackberries have focused on governments that want a peek behind RIM’s encryption, but other elements of the Blackberry make it well-designed for a business environment.…

Beer in pretzel dough. Tasty

Visitors to the forthcoming Texas State Fair will be able to enjoy* what can rightly be described as a culinary first - deep fried Guinness.…

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Not content with giving Google just one business model

Pentagon R&D chiefs at DARPA have awarded $11m to discover a technical secret for which, one may be sure, Google executives would pay a substantially larger sum - that of true video search.…

Big ones, small ones

Archos will release a raft of Android-based tablets later this month, with more following in October.…

Kind of ironic when you think about it

Cheeky scammers are offering prospective marks an application that supposedly shields them from exposure to survey scams.…

Party like it's 1929 (whether you want to or not)

An extremely annoying bug that plays an old ragtime tune has commandeered Google’s Gmail, after the company debuted its ‘Priority Inbox’ feature earlier this week.…

Admitting the imbalance is a good start

VMworld One of our first meetings at VMworld was with BlueLock, who have the distinction of being one of a small handful of cloud service providers participating in VMware’s big vCloud Datacenter initiative. We spent a bit of time grilling Pat O’Day, BlueLock CTO, in their booth and learned some new things about the cloud value proposition.…

What Steve Jobs is expected to unveil

Apple's media event draws close - it kicks off it 6pm this evening - but the rumours regarding just what CEO Steve Jobs - with halo or horns, it's your choice - will announce.…

Cupertino's chilling plan to sideline

Apple's live streaming of its latest revolutionary product launch today is a dry run for the Mac maker's massive server farm which will eventually allow Steve Jobs to bypass mainstream media and download news directly to fanbois' brains.…

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It's really real!

Palm has made public details of webOS 2, and launched an Early Access Program for developers, proving that HP has plans for the platform it acquired back in April.…

Says 3PAR CEO

3PAR CEO David Scott is keen to rebut any suggestion that 3PAR has been shopping itself.…

Enthusiastic welcome for new Emirates service

An enthusiastic crowd greeted the first Airbus A380 to land at Manchester Airport earlier this afternoon, marking the end of an 18-month, £10m upgrade of the airport to accommodate the beast.…

Gun-totin' pornsters step up

The company behind a proposal to create .xxx, an adults-only top-level internet domain, is set to run the gauntlet of objections from angry pornographers and appalled Christians for the sixth time.…

Haunts interwebs for rest of 2010

Mountain View will keep its Google Wave engine running until at least the end of 2010.…

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Whoa, dude, check this out

Undergraduate students in America managed to get control of the manoeuvring thrusters of an orbiting 2000-lb NASA satellite at the weekend, sending it plummeting into the Earth's atmosphere to rain burning fragments across the chilly seas north of Norway and Russia.…

'Lifestyle-resistant' Android handsets unwrapped

Motorola has introduced two new Android handsets: its second incarnation of the Milestone and the all-weather Defy. Both feature enhanced Motoblur, the company’s widget-based management tool that integrates e-mail, messages and social networking updates.…

Just ask nicely in a Portuguese accent

Referring to the village bike or asking to borrow a friend's girlfriend is not sexist, offensive or derogatory to women, the ASA has ruled, as long as it is done in a comical Portuguese accent.…

Software biz is go

SCO's request to sell off its software business has been approved by the bankruptcy courts.…

New netbooks and notebooks in-bound

Samsung has introduced the NF netbook family it plans to bring to market here in October. The new machines sports Intel's new dual-core Atom N550 chip.…

Can you hear me now?

Orange UK has launched an HD Voice service, so now a mobile phone can sound as clear as a good Skype connection if the technology is available end-to-end.…

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Press pass kerfuffle makes for excellent start

Blog GCG staff were summarily kicked out of the VMworld press and analyst area this morning. Our crime? Trying to have a short meeting with an industry contact while sitting inside the cordoned-off analyst/press corral. Last year, and in years past, we routinely took briefings in this area with no trouble.…

Apple quakes, a bit

Sony is set to announce a streaming service to rival Apple's iTunes at a trade show in Germany.…

If you can't destroy the world, drown it in data

Blogs The Large Hadron Collider has been operating for a few months now, and it hasn’t ripped apart the space/time continuum – not where I live, anyway, and that’s mostly all I care about. Of course, it could be that it’s still early, and that the cumulative effects of accelerating particles really fast could still spell the end of everything. Until that happens, the LHC is generating enough data to keep scientists busy from now until doomsday (unless doomsday is in the next couple of years).…

Cybercrime gang allegedly raked in $16m

Russian police have arrested 10 suspected members of a ransomware gang who allegedly made millions via a locked computer malware scam.…

'They said I was mad! But they'll all be very sorry'

Stateside chip boffins say they have developed a radical new method of building memory, which will smash through the "brick wall" that Moore's Law is about to run into.…

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Unless someone else wants it

Ofcom has ended various rounds of consultation by laying out its plans for the Program Makers & Special Event spectrum users, promising them priority access to interleaved spectrum and channel 38 until August 2021.…

Ex-boyf numberplate a white right sight

The New Zealand Transport Agency has declined to withdraw a woman's numberplate tribute to her ex-boyfriend, despite another motorist's complaint that ARYAN1 wasn't particularly well thought through.…

So that's why they need a firewall..

The point of the Great Australian Firewall is revealed at last today - it's to keep Aussie politicians in line.…

3-year joint development

HP is partnering with Hynix to bring Memristor technology from lab to fab.…

ASA extends tentacles online

The Advertising Standards Authority is to take responsibility for more online content, not just the paid-for advertisements it currently regulates.…

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Calls for tougher contract law

Current law on fairness in consumer contracts contains a loophole that may be harmful to consumers, according to consumer watchdog the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). Businesses should be more restricted in their freedom to charge ancillary fees, it says.…

Tripping the light fantastic

Security researchers using hardware hacking techniques have unearthed generic flaws in supposedly ultra-secure quantum cryptography systems.…

Which machines score top marks?

Group Test The summer hols are over, and it's back to school for the kids. Or to college, for the older ones. Whatever their age, though, your offspring - perhaps even you yourself - are likely to have their eye on a new computer for the new term.…

'The best equipment available'

A Scottish independent Christian school has forsworn books, pencils, pens, and paper, and will now educate its young charges solely via Apple's iPad.…

Vows 2011 break-even

Supercomputer and hyperscale server maker Silicon Graphics is still losing money, but it's hopeful that the years ahead will actually yield some profits. And thus, as the company announced its fiscal 2010 financial results today, SGI's board of directors reanimated a latent $40m stock buyback program that the merger between Rackable Systems and Silicon Graphics put on hold.…

And then there were nine

A man accused of being one of the most prolific sellers of credit-card data has been charged with participating in the brazen hack of RBS WorldPay in 2008 that funneled about $9.4m out of the payment processor in just 12 hours.…

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¡iCaramba!

According to a Mexican telco exec, Apple will release an iPhone 4 with an upgrade to its problematic antenna after its "free case" giveaway ends on September 30.…

Adapter cards given the boot, too

Xsigo Systems, one of the pioneers of virtual I/O for server networks and their links to storage, is beside itself with excitement at the VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San Francisco now that it has finally brought a product to market that is designed for enthusiastic uptake by IT shops that like their Ethernet and don't want to buy special adapter cards from anyone to virtualize their I/O.…

Tower data protected by Fourth Amendment

A federal magistrate has ruled that information pulled from cellphone towers provides such an intimate portrait of a customer's life that government investigators must get a warrant before obtaining it.…

One System x rack only, no blades

It only took five months, but on Tuesday it finally happened: IBM announced its first — and what could very well end up being its only — System x or BladeCenter server fitted with AMD's "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6100 processors.…

The OS sets in the west

VMworld VMware CEO Paul Maritz has questioned the relevance of the operating system.…

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Lineage II and the unenforceable EULA

A Hawaii man who sued a company over his crippling addiction to the computer game Lineage II has gone where few litigants have managed to go, defeating the end-user agreement that said he had no right to bring the case to begin with.…

'We have the apps you trust'

Microsoft has told users they've got "nothing to lose" by checking out the company's Azure cloud and hosted applications before committing to a deal with archrival VMware.…

Reuters saying - so it isn't spin

Via Aaron Rakers of Stifel Nicolaus I'm hearing Hitachi GST may be being prepped for an IPO.…

Integrien and TriCipher munched

VMworld VMware has agreed to acquire Integrien, an outfit that offers "real-time" analytics software for monitoring application and infrastructure performance, and TriCipher, a company that handles access management and security for net-based applications.…

Bingification to end in October — maybe

The Bingification of Yahoo! took another step forward Tuesday, when the transition of advertisers' search-based campaigns from Yahoo! Search Marketing to Microsoft adCenter got underway.…

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Celerra gateway excels

EMC has darted getting enthusiastic about benchmarks, the latest being the SPECsfs2008-nfs v3 one. It submitted a Celerra VG8 Gateway system, that's a NAS head sitting atop either Symmetrix VMAX or CLARiiON Fibre Channel storage. This VG8 is a bit of a monster with up to eight data movers, called X-Blades, which contain 6-core Xeon 5600 CPUs cycling at 2.83GHz.…

'Never struggle with user pastes from MS Word again!'

The Ruby on Rails creator has released version 3.0 of the open source web framework, following a two-year project involving more than 1,600 contributors to the code.…

Local laws, for local people

If you have plans to fry fish in Gloucester or beat your carpet along Blackpool promenade or transport a dead horse through Hammersmith and Fulham, you should know all these activities are still subject to local bye-laws. But this may be about to change, with the announcement today by Local Government Minister Grant Shapps of plans to give councils a new power to review and revoke outdated bye-laws.…

Teutonic songwriters' case kicks off

A German judge thinks Google should do more to detect illegal uploads to its YouTube video service. He was ruling on a case last week brought by an alliance of composers and songwriters' performance rights societies led by Germany's GEMA.…

Free gov phone-a-lonely-nurse service dropped

The Department of Health has said there are no immediate plans to drop the NHS Direct web service, despite signalling the end of telephone consultations.…

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Can of deodorant + lighter = hospital

An IT engineer who attempted to dispatch a spider with an improvised flamethrower ended up on the wrong end of his own can of deodorant, the Sun reports.…

Get a TDi estate not an EV, and save the planet!

Swiss boffins have mounted an investigation into the largely unknown environmental burdens of electric cars using lithium-ion batteries, and say that the manufacturing and disposal of batteries presents no insurmountable barriers to electric motoring. However, their analysis reveals that modern diesel cars are actually better for the environment than battery ones.…

Tegra 2 in its tank

Hot on the heels of Viewsonic's ViewPad 7 Android tablet comes an altogether more exciting - we have more of the spec, in other words - 10in model from Chinese electronics maker Hannspree.…

Defeat will set 'dangerous precedent', says co-defendant

The ban granted to Sony against three Australian companies who had been offering PSJailbreak, a USB dongle that lets PS3 owners play ripped game discs, has been extended.…

Never mind the cassocks

A Church of England vicar has told the Anglican community that it could do worse than learning to relax and taking a few cues from heavy metal.…

LBD doubles up as useless phone

A mobile phone built into a black dress? Marvellous. And with pictures too? Hold the science page for this one, but don't look too closely.…

Your cloud identity

VMworld VMware has released new versions of its View virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and its ThinApp application streaming software, while promising some sort of consumer "cloud identity" offering sometime next year.…

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Rearrange the chairs please

An enquiry into the UN's climate panel, the IPCC, has recommended administrative changes, including a full-time chief executive. It found the IPCC had "assigned high confidence to statements for which there is very little evidence", had failed to acknowledge criticism, or follow its own guidelines.…

Are UK hackers behind Trojan horse attack?

Compromised Twitter accounts have been used to post links to an exploit portal that poses as a download site for an update to TweetDeck, the popular micro-blogging client software package.…

Likeliest explanation: Alien spacecraft prang

New photos gleaned by the Mars Express spacecraft in orbit about the red planet have failed to shed any light on the origins of an "enigmatic" elongated crater named Orcus Patera.…

Just let me keep my name, goddammit

Microsoft has yet again renamed its Live Sync service which will now be dubbed Windows Live Mesh when it is released this autumn.…

Project Redwood is go

VMworld VMware has officially lifted the curtain on Project Redwood, its long-expected platform for building so-called infrastructure clouds. Now known as vCloud Director, the platform underpins Amazon EC2-like public clouds from VMware partners such as Verizon, but it's also a means of building similar services inside private data centers. The idea is to provide a single "hybrid" platform that lets businesses run applications across the public and the private.…

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Three-way fluffing promised

VMworld VMware is floating a Microsoft Azure-like developer cloud for coders building apps on SpringSource's middleware, but the news is carefully wrapped in a fluffy statement on "branding".…

But acronym-tastic telly not out until 2011?

LG will be showing off a 31in ultra-slim OLED TV at the IFA show in Berlin later this week.…

Build 7601.17077 takes partners by the hand

Microsoft pumped out fresh beta builds of its first service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 late last week.…

Doing the business for businesses

Skype has moved its connect service out of beta and is pitching it at businesses as speculation grows about the VoIP pioneer's future.…

It was simply resting in their account

Scammers who made off with $600,000 after breaking into the bank account of a Catholic diocese claim the funds have been earmarked for the victims of paedophile priests.…

Supreme Court next step

Microsoft has won the right to appeal a recently-lost patent case brought by Canadian firm i4i.…

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All the news that's fit to ear

Google has renewed its deal with AP for news content.…

Internet does for weighty print version?

The Oxford University Press is apparently planning to can the full-fat Oxford English Dictionary - the 20-volume, 22,000-page linguistic epic which weighs in at 150lb.…

Bigger is better

Blog ScaleMP made some HPC news lately by announcing that the Bielefeld University Physics Department has selected ScaleMP’s vSMP Foundation software.…

Not just a tablet, it's a phone too

Viewsonic has introduced its 7in Android 2.2-based tablet, as expected. It claimed the gadget is a world first - thanks to the device's "phone functionality".…

60 days to prove lack of security

The Indian government has granted BlackBerry users a two-month stay of execution, while it evaluates RIM's latest interception facility and serves notice to Google and Skype.…

Of course …. and what about FCoE?

Isilon is adding iSCSI block data access to its OneFS operating system, meaning its scale-out filer product is now a scale-out, unified storage product.…

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Surveys indicate people think this is a good thing

Humanity is in general genetically predisposed not to take surveys, according to new research. However there exists a proportion of mutant freaks whose genes make them want to respond to surveys.…

That's heavy, man

Putting on weight can be bad for your health: it may also cause you difficulties when trying to enter the United Kingdom.…

DXi6700 gets Fibre Channel

Quantum has added Fibre Channel access to its DXi6500 mid-range to make the DXi6700 with a 3.5TB/hour data rate.…

Your comments invited on vintage images

NASA is inviting the public to peruse some of of its best snaps on Flickr archive photo section The Commons, and has posted a few choice examples, including the first space shuttle launch back in 1981:…

Wrap up

Industrial conglomerate 3M has agree to buy biometric security firm Cogent Systems in a deal valued at $943m.…

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Permabit is the lucky guy

Fast filer supplier BlueArc is going to embed Permabit's Albireo deduplication software into its products, enabling more data to be stored in the same disk capacity.…

And starts buy-back scheme

HP is paying $55m to end an investigation into government procurement which suggested the ink giant was paying kickbacks to its channel partners in order to get government contracts.…

Let your fingers do the working

Review You've got to hand it to Apple. While it may not be the innovator it likes to think it is, it does have a knack for re-inventing old ideas and coming up with something better. Music players, small form-factor computers, tablet PCs - it's taken existing concepts and given them a major makeover.…

Shakes fist at information overload

Google has battled back against the dreaded "information overload" with an experimental revamp of the Gmail inbox.…

Feast of social startups

Google has snapped up yet another "social" startup. This week's purchase — not to be confused with last week's — is SocialDeck, an outfit that builds mobile games.…

'No offence disclosed'

A computer scientist who exposed serious vulnerabilities in India's electronic voting machines was released on bail over the weekend after seven days in police custody.…

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Szulik steps down, Shelton steps up

What do you get when you cross a Red Hat with a Green Beret? I don't know, but the commercial Linux and Java application server markets are about to find out.…

Soon: AMD Radeon and AMD FirePro

The ATI brand is about to disappear, AMD announced Monday.…

Getting punked by 9-year-old parameter

A security researcher has unearthed a “bizarre” flaw in Apple's QuickTime Player that can be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on Windows-based PCs, even those running the most recent versions of operating system.…

IBM and Oracle take note

Two of the brains behind the disruptive open source application server JBoss are building platform services for Java coders.…

Virtual switches coming to XenServer

On the opening day of VMware's VMworld virtualization and cloud extravaganza in San Francisco Monday, rival Citrix Systems fired off the first salvo of the most recent battle between the two companies over who can build a better cloud by announcing its acquisition of privately held VMLogix.…

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Infineon: pillar number three

Intel today announced an acquisition targeted at beefing up their stuttering efforts to become a player in the hottest segment of the consumer-electronics market: smartphones and other mobile internet-connectivity devices.…

One rack, forty-eight 10 GE ports

Long-time InfiniBand switch maker Voltaire continues to expand its Ethernet product line – and therefore its addressable market. Today, it announced a new switch aimed at cloudy workloads inside companies and at hosting/cloud service providers.…

Not that Gordon

HPD: just what we need in the computing industry – another acronym. But this is the term that Michael Norman, interim director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), is using to discuss how HPD (High Performance Data) goes hand in hand with HPC.…

Learn about your software in a lab before you deploy it

Sysadmin blog The most important message I have for those considering Office Communications Server is to take the time to play with it in the lab.…

'Magical' gadget could be yours

Competition Apple's iPad is undoubtedly 2010's hottest product and, thanks to the guys and gals at mobile tech superstore eXpansys, one top-of-the-range model could be yours.…

€5 a month

Broadband pricing in Europe and the US fell €5 a month, on average, as broadband speeds went up by an average of 20 per cent during the last year, says researcher Analysys Mason. This is after a relatively flat period during the past recession, when prices held up.…

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AMD's Athlon II Neo gets a mini-laptop outing

Review Computer manufacturers are well known for hyping up their products - "magical", indeed - but few actually fib. Samsung isn't telling porkies, but the sticker on its new X125 overstates with the best of them.…

Hand-holding included

HP is rolling out a new product dubbed CloudStart, a means of designing, building, and installing a private cloud based on Matrix iron. That includes training IT staff on how to use it and porting over four existing customer applications to the cloudy infrastructure.…

$700m airline search pact under microscope

Google's proposed $700 million acquisition of flight data outfit ITA Software is receiving extra scrutiny from the US Department of Justice.…

The 7th is the day

The tag line is promising; on October 7th you'll wonder how you managed data on October 6th. That's what Big Blue is promising with a "new and ground-breaking [storage] solution."…

Dell stoking HP's fire

3PAR awash in sea of green…

A taste of last week's tech

In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, gaming, computing and photography.…

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$2bn – because nothing else is 'available'

Dell and HP have once again traded bids as they tussle over storage outfit 3PAR. On Friday morning, Dell matched HP's Thursday bid of $27 a share, and HP promptly re-upped the ante with a $30 a share bid, valuing 3PAR at $2 billion.…

Mmmm, Ångströ

Google has acquired the Palo Alto-based startup Ångströ, an outfit that built all sorts of apps that hook into "social" sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.…

Google's invisible hand slapped

Android might be eating up smartphone market share, but Google's marketplace is leaving developers disgruntled.…

'Cisco makes refrigerators. We open your mind'

Dell has reinvented itself as a California hippie.…

In 2028, the car you won't drive won't be yours

Hot Chips Soon you won't own a car, but one will come to you on its own when you call it, then whisk you away in perfect safety without you having to drive it — and that day may be closer than you think.…

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(Microsoft not included)

Billionaire Paul Allen on Friday became the latest tech titan to launch a major patent offensive, filing a far-reaching complaint against Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix, and seven other companies over technology that was developed almost a decade ago.…

Faux emergency breeds 'undue stress'

British Airways has apologized for telling 275 passengers en route from London to Hong Kong that their Boeing 747 was in imminent danger of crashing into the sea.…

Sharing thoughts now 'impossible'

Google has said that due to Oracle's lawsuit against the company over the use of Java in Android, it will not be attending the annual JavaOne developer conference this fall. Following Larry Ellison's acquisition of Sun Microsystems, JavaOne is now run by Oracle.…

Have yourself a foxy weekend

Mozilla has pushed out another alpha version of Firefox for mobile phones, Fennec, and it's inviting Android, and N900, users to have a shot with the little fox.…

'But we really liked 'em!' claims firm

The US Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with a California public-relations firm in which the company agrees to stop posting reviews on Apple's iTunes Store of their clients' games, and take down the ones already posted.…

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Torrent of spam choked

Security researchers have disrupted the botnet known as Pushdo, a coup that over the past 48 hours has almost completely choked the torrent of junkmail from the once-prolific spam network.…

The secret is in the tilt

Could this mouse reduce your risk of developing repetitive strain injury? Creator SmartFish thinks so.…

Heroic US officer returns to civvy IT job

A US Army colonel who published a splendid attack on top-heavy bureaucracy and PowerPoint culture at NATO's top headquarters in Afghanistan has been sacked.…

Competitive pressures, too?

Wall Street got a shock this morning as chip maker Intel cut its guidance for the third quarter ending in September.…

Play push and pull with Google, Apple... Oh, and Windows phone 7 too

Microsoft will show some much-needed love into Hotmail next week, by adding Exchange ActiveSync to the webmail service.…

You've all been very naughty boys

The chief executive of .uk domain manager Nominet has called for the "domaining" community to "grow up" and start looking more respectable.…

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TwinFin upgrade around the corner

Momentum continues to build at data warehousing appliance maker Netezza, which posted a 45 per cent growth in the second quarter of fiscal 2011, hitting $63.8m in revenues.…

See you in court, mate

Sony's Australian wing has successfully asked the Federal Court to ban the importation and sale of the PS Jailbreak USB dongle.…

30 shops robbed

Five men and a woman have been sentenced to prison terms for their roles in a series of burglaries of mobile phone shops.…

Kim Kardashian's juicy buns? Not on here, mate

NSFW 50 Cent is none too impressed that Twitpic last night objected to a snap of of his "Kim K burger" and decided it'd probably be better if they suspended his account altogether.…

Serious computer for serious tasks

We're nowhere near the end of 2010, but Fujitsu has already roadmapped what it hopes will be the killer mobile office computer of 2011.…

2011-2012 is crunch time - Gartner

Businesses rushing to upgrade their computers from Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows 2000 to Windows 7 can expect their budget purse to swell in 2011-2012, IT analyst house Gartner warned yesterday.…

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Hawaiian beaks dismiss 'speculative fear' case

Eccentric botanist and soi-disant physicist Walter L Wagner of Hawaii, continuing his futile battle in the US courts against the Large Hadron Collider, has been handed another stinging legal bitchslap.…

Deadline day for European review

The Ministry of Justice has said it has responded on time to the European Commission's request that it beef up British data protection to bring it into line with European law.…

Ofcom goes gentle on neutrality

Exclusive Ofcom will encourage ISPs to be transparent about traffic management, but won't ask them to detail the information in a standard format, according to meeting notes seen by The Register.…

Yanai's baby under threat

Mighty Moshe Yanai has left IBM for unknown reasons and regions unknown, with various bloggers suggesting his intensely competitive personality might have have something to do with it. That could leave the XIV product in a lurch.…

Hammer time

Mozilla pumped out a release candidate version of Firefox 3.6.9 yesterday.…

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Manned sub-orbital missions to follow first HEAT launch?

Danish rocket enthusiasts are poised for the first test launch of of a vehicle they hope will one day carry adventurous passengers on a sub-orbital jaunt.…

One known joker to be shuffled out of pack

Apple slung out a third beta of Mac OS X 10.6.5 yesterday for coders to tinker with.…

Web 2.0 frenzy ensues

It seems Dell hasn't quite got used to working with the GNU General Public Licence - it has failed to release some of the core code used by its Streak tablet, much to the annoyance of the open-source community.…

Expects VAT-related surge in spending

Computacenter's unaudited results for the first six months of the year show a decent performance all round - with even troublesome Germany showing signs of improvement.…

'I have done nothing useful since I've been here'

A US colonel serving at NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan has launched a blistering attack on the PowerPoint culture and top-heavy bureaucracy there.…

PIgeon post or poo?

Pigeons from the far corners of the storage empire have flown in to the El Reg roost dropping off their precious messages which may or may not be true, but we think they could be.…

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Concept of 'bad publicity' takes another spanking

A purse-lipped opinion piece by the Mail on Sunday directed at politicians who dare to support the legitimate adult industry has backfired, with sex-tradeshow Erotica 2010 turning the slagging to its own advantage.…

Lack of engines prompts yet another delay

Boeing will not deliver the first Boeing 787 Dreamliners until 2011, following yet another delay in the troubled programme.…

Games to ship on discs for years, says Hirai

If in ten years we've all got diskless PlayStations and Xboxes, we'll all be able to jeer at Sony Computer Enterainment CEO Kaz Hirai who this week forecast such things are at least that far off, if not longer.…

Know the difference - or you could be in trouble

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Nor is it especially clever, if you’re voluntarily handing your PC over to the police to assist them in their inquiries, not to understand the difference between “holiday snaps” and pictures of a criminally pornographic or indecent nature.…

Know the difference - or you could be in trouble

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Nor is it especially clever, if you’re voluntarily handing your PC over to the police to assist them in their inquiries, not to understand the difference between “holiday snaps” and pictures of a criminally pornographic or indecent nature.…

Mini 5103 inbound

HP is preparing a netbook based on Intel's new dual-core Atom chip, the 1.5GHz N550, and has posted a service manual on its website ahead of the as-yet-unannounced machine's release.…

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Charges should be spent on roads - survey

A Department for Transport survey has found that more than half of UK adults believe that road charging should be based on usage.…

Can we do more?

Workshop IT increasingly plays a pivotal role in business processes. The importance of systems to the efficiency of business operations makes maintaining the quality of service delivered by IT platforms a matter of mounting attention and concern. How can systems managers ensure this quality, especially with the expanding use of virtualisation solutions, the potential impact of “cloud” based tools and rapidly changing business needs?…

But will it be enough for New Dehli?

RIM has prosed that an industry forum be established to help governments manage lawful intercept, in the hope of forestalling India's threatened ban.…

Poker pot reaches $1.8bn

HP upped the ante in its battle with Dell last night- outbidding the direct seller's $24 a share offer for 3PAR with an offer of $27 a share - valuing 3PAR at $1.8bn.…

Big shot

Review I have to admit upon opening the box and finding a silver-bodied version of the Sony NEX-5 with the 18-55 zoom, my first thoughts were: this is the coolest camera ever.…

No business model is so 2001

Open...and Shut During the dot-com bubble, making money was optional. Given enough eyeballs, all investors are shallow, went the refrain, and money poured into silly startups that had little chance of ever making money except in equally silly IPOs and acquisitions.…

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VMware deal will not save the day

The uncertainty over the future of Novell continued to weigh on the company as it reported disappointing financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2010 ended July 31.…

Uh, will H.264 even be relevant in 4 years?

Mozilla vice president of engineering Mike Shaver has questioned the importance of the forever free H.264 license introduced this morning by the MPEG-LA, the organization that oversees the web video codec on behalf of patent holders such as Apple and Microsoft.…

'Too fat to text' no longer excuse

The gloriously corpulent cadre of Japanese ring warriors known in the West as sumo wrestlers and in their home country as rikishi have a new tool to help them communicate among themselves: the iPad.…

'Conspiracy to discredit' elections probed

A computer scientist who exposed serious vulnerabilities in India's electronic voting machines will remain in police custody until at least Saturday, seven days after he was arrested, news websites reported.…

But up is still up

The server racket has been recovering in the second quarter, but in Western Europe, spending was affected by faltering economic conditions in some countries and ongoing concern about how all members of the euro zone will be affected.…

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Beyond the A4

Apple has filed a patent application that supports the stacked-component design of its A4 chip used in the iPad and iPhone 4, and points to further future integration of multiple system components on the same die.…

Standalone Tweetbook feed

Google has given its Twitter-inspired "real-time" search results their very own webpage. Previously, the search and ads giant served up such ultra-fresh links alongside all its other results, but it's now providing a dedicated portal for those seeking stuff recently posted to Twitter, Facebook, other "social" services, blogs, and news sites.…

Beware of bosses who say f**k a lot

Researchers have developed a method of rooting out fraudulent financial statements based on the statements CEOs and CFOs make during quarterly earnings calls.…

Pursuing other interests

Moshe Yanai, the founder of EMC's Symmetrix product, storage company XIV and co-founder of Diligent, has left IBM.…

* Free forever for free apps only

MPEG-LA — the organization that oversees the H.264 video codec on behalf of patent holders such as Apple and Microsoft — has made its latest move in what's shaping up to be an intriguing chess game with the likes of Google, Mozilla, and Opera.…

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We don't own databases, we automate them

Hewlett-Packard has snapped up a database and application automation company called Stratavia for an undisclosed sum.…

One with a proper, mobile CPU, this time

Asus has outed its first netbook based on the just-announced dual-core Atom N550 processor.…

At least 50 quid off your old (working) computer

Want a new notebook or netbook? Dixons stores PC World and Currys are both offering a "guaranteed" £50 off any new machine when you hand over your old one.…

TechEd Oz targets women in IT - and bikinis

Microsoft has upset a bunch of bikini-clad Aussie “Meter Maids”, after a promotional stunt backfired on the company.…

$100k box versus .45 calibre round

An employee of a Salt Lake City mortgage company allegedly got drunk and popped a cap in the firm's $100k server, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.…

Manipulate Amy Pond with your WiiMote

Doctor Who is a kids' programme, right? Which no doubt explains why developer Asylum Entertainment is bringing out a couple of Who games for Nintendo's Wii and DS.…

Slams ex-colleague as 'egotistical, greedy and arrogant'

A senior Hitachi Data Systems executive has launched an extraordinarily aggressive attack on IBM Fellow Moshe Yanai, the inventor of EMC's Symmetrix platform and pioneer of XIV and Diligent, both companies which IBM bought.…

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National Skills Academy bitten by JaCKal

A government training organisation - the National Skills Academy - has had its home page hacked and replaced by a message supporting Palestine.…

Knocks HP back

3PAR has said 'yes' to Dell after the PC firm raised its bid for the storage vendor to $23.4/share beating HP's rival bid by just 30 cents.…

How did Nicks and Mellencamp get so paranoid?

An ageing and increasingly cantankerous rock aristocracy is pointing its arthritic fingers at the internet, blaming it for destroying America, and even more worryingly, rock and roll.…

Deactivate voicemail, or suffer the consequences

A round of applause today for Thai operator TrueMove and its refreshing honesty about the potentially deadly effects of mobile phone bills.…

'Software error' sends droid off military reservation

A software error, combined with an unfortunate user action, led to a US military robot helicopter - developed from a manned version and capable of carrying a fearsome arsenal of weapons - straying into restricted airspace near Washington DC, according to reports.…

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Throw that man down a mine shaft!

Adobe has distanced itself from less-than-pretty comments made against Oracle by the Flash and Photoshop vendor’s open source boss.…

Xeon drives UK, French nukes: US favouring Opteron

French-centred IT provider Bull has announced an order from the UK's nuclear weapons apparatus for a third bullx supercomputer. The new "Blackthorn" machine will join two existing bullx "Willows" already in use by the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE).…

Oracle's victory should be 'set aside'

Brand owners may have less power to prevent sales in Europe of goods intended for other markets after a ruling by England's Court of Appeal this week. The judgment over the sale of Sun-branded disk drives is likely to be welcomed by independent resellers.…

Tagging the youth for fun and profit

Coca-Cola is offering wrist bands to those attending the Village festival in Israel so they can update their Facebook status with a tap of the hand.…

Impervious to chip fat, vinegar?

LG's display developing subsidiary will begin mass-producing 9.7in colour e-paper panels and 19in monochrome but flexible e-paper screens by the end of the year.…

Webby Outlook gets UI tweak for netbooks

Redmond released the first service pack for its Exchange 2010 software yesterday.…

Need Apple worry? Nah

Acer's chairman JT Wang may believe Apple's share of the tablet market may shortly plunge to between 20 and 30 per cent, but market watcher iSuppli doesn't see it falling below 60 per cent, for the next few years at least.…

Full constructional details on the drawing board

The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team would like to assure readers that we will be providing full constructional details of the Vulture 1 aircraft - just as soon as the thing's finished…

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Flexibility leads to complex choices

Workshop We know that the majority of organisations that we survey have adopted server virtualisation to support their server consolidation activities, and are reaping benefits.…

100 teenagers named, three already killed

The southwestern Colombian town of Puerto Asís is in a state of "panic and anxiety" after two death lists naming a total of 100 young people were posted on Facebook, warning them to get out of town within three days or face the consequences.…

Holidays are for slackers

Only 5.9 per cent of workers disconnect from the office while on leave, and 40 per cent have tried in-flight Wi-Fi to keep them connected.…

Vibrating anklets phone home

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is using satellites to track psychiatric patients with criminal convictions.…

'Teabag' pong-busters derived from military gasmasks

The list of boons which military-driven R&D has conferred upon a suffering humanity is a long one: computers and their networks, aircraft, brass bands etc. But now warboffinry has truly penetrated deep into civilian life - even unto the actual armpits of ordinary consumers - to tackle one of the most fearsome scourges besetting Western civilisation today.…

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Enjoyed installing OCS? Good, you may be reinstalling soon

Sysadmin blog Neat as it is, Office Communications Server (OCS) is complicated. It has grown beyond being one application server into a collection of interlinked but separate application servers, each with their own requirements.…

17 states call for end of adult ads

Attorneys-general from 17 US states have signed an open letter to Craigslist calling for the immediate closure of its adult services section.…

Big and beautiful?

Review Samsung’s R780 has clearly been designed to get noticed. The glossy, deep-red chassis and slightly nauseating swirly line motif won’t appeal to those who like their laptops to be subtle, but it does make it stand out from the crowd. Personally speaking, I quite like it. That said, I also quite liked the design of Acer’s Ethos, and it appears there were a few of you who thought I had a screw loose for saying that.…

APIs for everyone

If you listen to all of the major cloudy infrastructure players - and some of the minor ones too - they all sound like they have all the answers and you need only come to them to solve all your fluffy IT problems. But no one actually has a complete cloudy stack. Even Red Hat, which tried again today to give that impression while at the same time espousing its openness as it fleshed out some of the details of its Cloud Foundations stack.…

Latter-day Access needs less code

Review Microsoft's Visual Studio LightSwitch, just released to beta, is a new edition of Visual Studio 2010 and will become the next step up from the free Express.…

RIP, browse and get hacked vuln

Apple has purged Mac OS X of a browse-and-get-hacked vulnerability that first came to light three weeks ago, when the popular Jailbreakme service used it to root fully patched versions of the iPhone.…

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iPods, Apple TV, cloudy tunes?

Fanbois, mark your calendars: Apple has sent out invitations to a music-themed event to take place in San Francisco next Wednesday morning.…

More to come...

Wikileaks posted a classified CIA memo on Wednesday, three weeks after the Pentagon warned the self-described whistleblower website to return a huge cache of of unpublished documents believed to be in its possession.…

Meatsack stickjockeys no longer required

A US military competition aimed at finding a robotic unmanned helicopter able to haul supplies to isolated bases in Afghanistan has a winner, according to reports.…

XenClient is less than it could be

On Wednesday, Citrix Systems kicked out XenClient, a bare-metal (or type 1 in virt lingo) hypervisor aimed at desktop and laptop PCs, perhaps in an attempt to steal a little thunder from VMware and its upcoming VMware View 4.5 virtual desktop infrastructure software, expected to be announced at the VMworld conference in San Francisco next week.…

Less is more

Internet Explorer 9 is getting a stripped down interface, if a screenshot leaked online is to be believed.…

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Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Intel CEO Paul Otellini believes that the US is heading towards a second-rate status as a technology leader, and it's the Obama administration's fault.…

Voice extension

Google has announced that you can now place and receive phone calls inside Gmail, a day after a report revealed that such a service was under test.…

'Network administrator's worst fear'

The Pentagon has opened the kimono on what it described as the “most significant breach of US military computers ever,” in which a flash drive in 2008 was used to infect large numbers of computers, including those used by the Central Command overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan.…

All-in-one zombie attacks children of the 80s

The Commodore 64 will rise from the grave before Christmas, according to the tiny company determined to reanimate the long-dead 80s icon.…

Mountain View supports split personalities

Facebook’s popularity has overtaken Google’s Orkut in India, where Mountain View’s social network site had previously – and somewhat surprisingly – reigned supreme.…

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High end waiting for the lift

The recovery in the server business is building momentum, and the box counters at IDC believe that server makers peddled and pushed $10.9bn in aluminum, tin, and iron in the second quarter of 2010, an increase of 11 per cent compared to last year.…

Vulture Central to send Auntie Olympic-sized invoice

We're delighted to announce that the Beeb appears to have got with the programme and adopted official El Reg units.…

Network operators can't be trusted, not like banks

As America wakes up to the idea of pay-by-phone the Consumers Union is calling for greater regulation, concerned that proximity payments may not receive any protection at all.…

Knocks together proof of concept structure

The Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team has spent the last couple of days working on a definitive Vulture 1-X wing structure, having already tried and rejected a few options.…

Lotsa money owed everywhere

Labels both large and small, as well as songwriters' organisations, are owed millions after Playlist.com filed for bankruptcy.…

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Better security, lovely pictures

The Home Office has said that new UK passports with 'strengthened security features' will be issued from October.…

Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook

The Royal Society has opened its investigation into why kids are so bored with technology and computing classes in British schools - even if they're obsessed with their mobiles and iPods and applications like Facebook.…

Just what are Nokia and Intel playing at?

Yesterday Nokia and Intel announced that the future of mobile interfaces is 3D, and that everyone else will soon be following their Meego platform into the third dimension.…

Nibbling at the wrong target

Opinion My US colleagues are regulars on John C Dvorak's excellent Cranky Geeks and a highlight of the show. I was recently intrigued to hear the opinion from Vulture West Coast (in Episode 232) that RIM was toast, and Android would triumph. Now, bearing in mind that I've been wrong about mobile more than I've been wrong about anything else - quite epically and unheroically wrong - I beg to differ.…

Tiny twirly tech

Boffins in Kansas report that they have made a breakthrough in "spintronics" - the postulated future technology which might replace today's conventional electronics and allow much more powerful IT hardware.…

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Who knew you could retrieve stuff from the recycling bin?

A teacher who let a class use his laptop was given a suspended sentence yesterday after kids found child sex abuse images in his recycling bin.…

Palm Pre least green in shrunken field

O2 has added environmental impact to its handset specifications, rating the Palm Pre as the worst while Sony Ericsson's Elm left the smallest footprint.…

Nozoe demands damages, apology

The ex-president of Fujitsu has thrown a sue ball at his former employer, following his ousting from the company in September 2009.…

Beware bluetooth bearing gifs

Analysis In matters of extreme porn, the message of recent cases seems to be that whether you get off increasingly depends on how familiar your legal team are with a law still in its courtroom infancy.…

At least 6 critical vulns squished

Apple has punched out a security update for some major bugs found in its Mac OS X operating system.…

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Do you want identity theft with that?

Dixons has had its wrist slapped for leaving customer details in a skip outside one of its PC World stores.…

Photon-hoggish humanity set for orgy of illumination

Federal boffins in the States say that the brave new future in which today's 'leccy-guzzling lights are replaced by efficient LEDs may not, in fact, usher in massive energy savings.…

For once, it's not the estate agent's fault

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned a BT television advert, after the watchdog concluded that customers had been misled by the telecom giant’s broadband speed claims.…

Shane Robison shouts 'NOOOOOOOOO'

If 3PAR decides the HP re-bid is a superior offer it is going to give Dell three days to come up with a better acquisition offer or be jilted.…

CIA documents next up

WikiLeaks used Twitter to tell the world it is to release a CIA document later today.…

This is the dawning of the age of location-whores

Alternative location service echoecho reckons Facebook Places is driving up interest in the subject, to the good of the whole industry and, in particular, echoecho.…

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Mains networking to the max

Are your one-port powerline Ethernet adaptors proving insufficient for hooking up all the gadgets you want to connect to your network? Western Digital has the answer.…

'Knifes' scare ends in therapeutic facial

Paris Hilton entertained her 2,520,223 Twitter followers yesterday with a quick tweet revealing that some bloke had just tried to enter her Hollywood Hills pad armed with "knifes".…

Second US buy

Chinese auction house Alibaba is expanding its US presence by grabbing Auctiva - the Californian firm which makes tools for business users of eBay.…

Clandestine op's cover blown on Facebook

Two Stockholm schoolgirls have been slapped with a fine for bugging the staff room at their seat of learning.…

'Open core' Eucalyptus scales fightback

Marten Mickos – the former MySQL chief executive who now heads build-you-own-cloud outfit Eucalyptus Systems – has defended the Eucalyptus platform against recent criticism of both its "open core" model and its ability to scale beyond a relatively small number of servers.…

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Wired for sound? Not any more!

Product Round-up The last batch of stereo Bluetooth headphones I looked at, back in 2008, were something of a mixed bag, with some cumbersome designs and very variable audio quality. Fortunately, the current generation provides much better stereo quality, and we’d happily recommend any of them as an alternative to a conventional set of wired headphones.…

That's not my mess!

An appeals court in Argentina has ruled that search engines are not responsible for the content of sites that they index. The court overturned a lower court's ruling against Google and Yahoo! Argentina.…

Intel fight afoot

The ARM RISC processor is taking a few baby steps closer to being a credible alternative to x64 processors for servers, according to ARM Holdings, the British company behind the popular chip.…

Help us to help you help us

Carriers and handset makers are rallying to make it cheaper and easier to deliver applications on phones using the "official" brand of Java on mobile.…

'Only ten? Wanna make something of it?'

Hot Chips Intel has confirmed that its upcoming Westmere-EX server processor will be a 10-core, server-enhanced, single-die beastie.…

VoiceChatTalk VoIP

Google is testing a service that lets you make phone calls from Gmail, according to a report that includes a screen shot of the test.…

Tag and search

Microsoft claims to have significantly reworked the Office applications for Facebook adjunct to its main, $14bn Office applications business.…

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Making Hyper-V mind its manners by year's end

Another VMworld event is coming down the pike from VMware with everyone riding its virtualization wake, and containing VM sprawl is still a problem. Which is why Embotics is kicking up its V-Commander server virtualization management system for VMware hypervisors to the 3.6 release level.…

Plenty more where that came from

A day after Microsoft confirmed a vulnerability in Windows applications that executes malicious code on end-user PCs, the first exploits have been released targeting programs including the Firefox browser, uTorrent BitTorrent client and Microsoft PowerPoint.…

And maybe non-terrorists too

Scientists are developing an identity verification system that would spot terrorists and pedophiles by scanning their skeletal features and comparing them against a database of stored images.…

Four to the fourth

Mozilla has released a fourth Firefox 4 beta, adding in its seasoned bookmark-syncing service, Firefox Sync, and its new tab-sorting interface, originally dubbed Tab Candy and now known as Tab Panorama.…

Microsoft back-ends it

Yahoo! has completed its transition from an in-house search infrastructure to Microsoft Bing platform in the US and Canada.…

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Jobs' non-personal data claim 'hogwash'

Microsoft chief architect of identity Kim Cameron has insisted that the "non-personal information" collected by Apple can be used to personally identify you – despite angry counterarguments from at least one Jobsian fanboi.…

Safe deposit boxes still a mystery

The Apple manager accused of accepting kickbacks in exchange for company secrets had $150,000 stashed in shoeboxes when authorities searched his home, according to news reports.…

Galaxy Tab fizzes in

It's official: Samsung will unveil its would-be iPad beater, now called the Galaxy Tab - sounds like a fizzy drink - just ahead of the IFA consumer electronics show early next month.…

It approached a fourth

Comment It's been the 3PAR bid shuffle; the company has been seeking to sell itself since early May and three potential acquirers were involved: Dell; HP and one other.…

Automatic transmission for AWS

This spring, a startup called Makara came out of stealth mode with a beta of a product called Cloud Application Platform, which as the name suggests allowed companies to set up private platform clouds like Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, or Engine Yard internally on their own iron. Today, Makara is doing something that will perhaps be more interesting, which is layering atop Amazon's EC2 infrastructure cloud to turn it into a platform cloud.…

Larry effect turns FOSS into 'cash cow'

Oracle has replaced Microsoft as the FOSS community’s number one enemy, according to Adobe System’s open source boss.…

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Seven-planet system orbits spaced much like ours

Astroboffins probing the skies with a crafty instrument attached to a mighty telescope high in the Andes have found a sun very like our own - which they believe has a planet of similar size to Earth.…

NSS SAN Accelerator VDI style

FalconStor has tweaked its flash-accelerated NSS SAN Accelerator to make virtual desktop provisioning and protection faster.…

Scribblesmut scorned by censorious Scandinavians

A manga exhibition in a Danish museum is attracting protestors concerned that material on display depicts fictional children in a sexual manner.…

Lawyers to defend P2P porn pensioner pestering

Consumer group Which? has welcomed a decision by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to send Andrew Crossley of ACS:Law to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.…

Two-hour outage for some hosted services

Microsoft suffered a two-hour long outage of some of its hosted software services in North America yesterday.…

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Roboshuttle relocated - for now

The United States' X-37B robot mini-shuttle spaceplane, which was launched into orbit on a classified mission in April, has changed its orbit. However the "secret space warplane" - as the X-37B has been dubbed by the Iranian government - has now been re-acquired by alert amateur skywatchers.…

Microsoft machine lumbers into motion

The final version of the Windows Phone 7 developer tools will be available from September 16, while handset information isn't leaking so much as flooding ahead of the official launch.…

Five's back in

Richard Desmond, new owner of Channel 5, has thrust the channel back into Project Canvas, the BBC-led next-generation set-top box.…

£2.3m for losing customer records

Zurich Insurance must pay an enormous £2.3m fine for losing thousands of British people's personal data.…

Androids can be pirates too

Android applications secured by Google's Library aren't as secure as they should be, with only a byte or two preventing applications being copied freely.…

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Much ink, much beef

Printer maker Lexmark has probably run out of ink today after firing off 24 patent lawsuits to cartridge vendors on Monday.…

'We need a competitive, innovative IP system'

The Intellectual Property Office is asking for evidence which might influence future policy.…

'They just go "Yow",' enthuses raygun sheriff

A microwave "pain ray" energy weapon, deemed too controversial for US military use in Iraq, has nonetheless gone into service. A trial installation is in use at a prison in Los Angeles for the purpose of quelling fights among the inmates.…

Nude trespassing was 'icing on the cake'

An up and coming football player has been kicked off the Oregon State University team after local cops were forced to tase him after he was found "naked and intoxicated" in a stranger's home.…

'New challenges', family time

AOL’s senior communications veep Marty Moe has quit the company.…

DWP slams brakes on gov data sharing system

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed that it has halted the development of a central data sharing system for government.…

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As Symantec haunted by dead celebs

Proving there's not much new under the sun, McAfee is warning travellers to the US to be aware of the danger of fake visa waiver websites.…

Ideal for jetlag, bipolar, interstellar colonists

Good news today for sufferers from jet lag, bipolar depression, interstellar or interplanetary colonists and others plagued by disorders relating to the circadian rhythm - or body clock.…

Snazzy gadget arrives in UK

Samsung's E60 e-book reader has arrived on UK shelves courtesy of newsagent WHSmith.…

Your favourite quote adapted for the occasion goes here

LucasFilm has filed a $5m trademark suit against "Jedi Mind Inc", claiming that the company has failed to phase out its use of the word 'Jedi'.…

More CLARiiON/Celerra VMware integration

EMC's eagerly-awaited FAST 2 automated data movement is coming to CLARiiON and Celerra arrays today, together with FCoE and improved VMware vCenter integration.…

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Insert flying OS luser gag here

Those of you who've been following our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme are invited to spare a thought today for Microsoft's Phoenix glider, which failed to demonstrate the Right Stuff over the weekend at Red Bull's Flugtag competition in Long Beach, California.…

Boldly go where no alien tourist has gone before

An Australian cave system has become the world's first attraction to offer self-guided tours in Klingon.…

Game over, man

Games giant Take-Two Interactive has lost an attempt to obtain the domain name Bioshock.com through arbitration proceedings from a company that owns hundreds of thousands of domain names.…

Google calendar elbows in too

Google has enabled push email on the iPhone, so now received Gmail can interrupt iPhone users just as irritatingly as the native app supplied by Apple.…

Patent application shows smarts

Here's a sign that Apple is not only thinking seriously about touchscreen iMacs, but that it has a rather smarter view of the technology than its rivals.…

The great LibCon privacy test

When on holiday in the Dordogne two weeks ago (feels like two months now!), I picked up a Sunday Times newspaper which stated that the government was reducing grant-funding for speed cameras. This was given the thumbs-up by the paper which reported that many motorists see such cameras as a tax first and a life-saver second.…

Home and away

Review Verbatim is best known for its range of straightforward and affordable hard disks, memory sticks and other storage devices. However, its new MediaShare drive is a little more ambitious. The low-profile aluminium chassis bears more than a passing resemblance to Apple’s Mac Mini or AppleTV, but it’s essentially a good-looking Nas drive with a few extra media-streaming features thrown in for good measure.…

Like Second Life, only successful

Intel and Nokia are reviving the spirit of Second Life with plans for 3D interfaces on mobile devices running their MeeGo Linux distro.…

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Self-aware chippery

Hot Chips "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them," said mathematician Alfred Lord Whitehead, in his 1911 tome, An Introduction to Mathematics. And with its Autonomic Computing effort, IBM believes it's advancing civilization.…

Netbooks. Not servers. For now

AMD says that its upcoming "Bobcat" core for netbooks and notebooks is smaller than a single-core Intel Atom chip – and faster. According to the company, this low-power architecture could eventually follow Atom into the server market, but at the moment, that territory is still reserved for the "Bulldozer."…

Next up: Smooches for Oracle, Microsoft

Cloud.com – the outfit that offers a platform for transforming your existing data center setup into a so-called infrastructure cloud – has introduced support for VMware's vSphere 4.1 hypervisor and its accompanying vCenter management console. The CloudStack platform already dovetails with other hypervisors, including open source mainstays Xen and KVM.…

No porn, no fat apps, just fill our music store

Microsoft is prepping Windows mobile developers for October's debut of Windows Phone 7.…

'Cannot directly be addressed in Windows'

Microsoft on Monday warned of a vulnerability in Windows applications made by third-party developers that allows remote attackers to execute malicious code on end-user PCs.…

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Results before you ask

Google is testing a new incarnation of its search engine that rejiggers results pages as you type, according to a video captured by a UK-based SEO.…

'Monitoring centers' led to journo capture

An Iranian journalist imprisoned in that country without trial since June 2009 is suing telecommunications concern Nokia Siemens for allegedly providing the surveillance equipment that led to his capture.…

Symbolic passing of power

The OpenSolaris board has suspended operations and symbolically handed all responsibly for of the open-variant of Solaris back to database giant Oracle.…

And Xen too

OpenStack – the open source cloud computing fabric launched by NASA and Rackspace Hosting at the end of July – has added support for additional hypervisors.…

Can frenemies cooperate?

Google Lab's visual-search technology, Google Goggles, should be available for iPhone users later this year.…

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Multitouch for 'gPad'

Rumors continue to swirl around Google's efforts to challenge the Apple iPad.…

Plucked from Xbox Market

The latest installment in the highly lucrative Halo game series for the Xbox 360 has been leaked to the internet three weeks before its official release date by fans who hacked a hair-brained method Microsoft used to secure review copies.…

Expose a vuln, go to jail

Indian authorities have arrested a computer scientist for refusing to divulge the source of an electronic voting machine that he and a team of researchers used to expose holes in the country's election system.…

Schadenfreude offers no guarantees

Radio Reg Steve Ballmer's summer has been dominated by Microsoft's delayed response to the iPad and iPhone.…

The stimulus and the stick

President Obama giveth to the IT vendor community in the United States, and now maybe he is fixing to taketh away.…

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Enough to keep you out the heat?

Review Remember Whac-a-Mole? Mole pops out of hole, bash with rubber mallet; mole pops out of hole, bash with rubber mallet; mole pops out... well, you get the picture.…

N550 hits the shelves

Intel today lauded the arrival of netbooks based on its new dual-core Atom processor, the N550.…

Did we say 'invalidate'?

Vodafone tells us it will honour its warranty on Galaxy S handsets updated with firmware from Samsung, despite saying the opposite last week.…

Comply or pay the price

Residents in Cleveland, Ohio, will have to ensure their recycling is out on time or face a $100 fine for failing to do their bit.…

Driving Bulldozers to the future

Chip maker designer and seller Advanced Micro Devices said today that three weeks ago it nabbed Don Newell, a chip tech from rival Intel, to be its new chief technology officer for its server microprocessors.…

Gandalf recaptured with 'big duvet'

The Ruppell's Griffon Vulture which went awol last week from a Cumbernauld bird of prey centre has been recaptured, the BBC reports.…

Switchover in 2025?

Digital radio listening won't hit the Government's 50 per cent target until 2018, according a new industry analysis - putting the great analogue switch-off in jeopardy. And when the big day arrives, most of that digital consumption will be via the interwebs and TV - not DAB radio.…

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High as a kite on nitrates

The model aircraft enthusiasts following our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme will be relieved to learn we've finally cracked the Vulture 1-X skinning poser.…

Progressive support hardening, reactionaries limp into fifth place

Despite its failure to win any seats in last week’s Australian General Election, the Australian Sex Party was today celebrating its arrival on the scene as the "Major Minor Party" of Australian politics.…

New filters to catch nasty stuff

With the future of the great Australian firewall once more up for grabs, major ISPs are seeking to forestall government plans by announcing a filter of their own. However, unlike the government’s proposed filter, this one will apply specifically to sites identified as hosting child porn.…

HP goes hostile

In a webcast discussing HP's bid for 3PAR today, HP said it had made a previous offer for the company which had, instead, accepted a Dell offer.…

OCS don't need excuses

Sysadmin blog Office Communications Server (OCS) is one of Microsoft’s hidden gems. Everyone hears about Windows, Exchange and SQL Server, but you could be excused for never having heard of OCS, the evolution of Microsoft’s corporate instant messaging service. There are a lot of competitors, but OCS has excellent integration with Microsoft Office products.…

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No longer in beta

Samsung has released version 1 of the Bada SDK, for all those developers who've been dying to develop for Bada but unwilling to run with the Beta release.…

Tim Vine secures best joke crown

Dave TV has honoured Tim Vine with its Joke of the Fringe award - the annual celebration of the Best of Edinburgh quippery.…

Irish distie says oui

Irish distributor and business services group DCC has bought French consumer distie Comtrade SA for €11.4m.…

Whither EVA and XP?

Suppose HP succeeds in buying 3PAR and its InServ arrays; what will that mean for the current EVA and XP storage arrays, block access devices that compete with 3PAR's T-Class (XP) and F-Class (EVA):…

See you and raise you

HP has written to 3PAR CEO David Scott offering to buy the company for $24/share, trumping Dell's $18/share bid.…

Saturday shopping fail

Barclays customers were left without access to their accounts on Saturday thanks to a computer failure.…

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All off to Sky broadband?

BSkyB is considering closing UK Online, an ISP brand it acquired when it bought Easynet.…

Gallows visit likely to 'spark public debate'

Japan's justice minister Keiko Chiba has invited the press to enter the Tokyo Detention Centre execution chamber, shortly after she personally attended the hanging of two convicted murderers.…

What would make a coalition willing?

With almost all of the election results in, the future of the great Australian firewall looks ever so slightly wobbly. Broadband for rural areas may however be about to receive a significant boost.…

Stable version gets Boba Fett treatment

Google applied patches to three critical and eight high risk vulns in a new iteration of its Chrome browser released late last week.…

Promises 'hard and extensive response' if Israel attacks

The Iranian government has unveiled what it claims is a robotic bomber with enough range to - almost - reach Israel. The announcement came amid a flurry of statements promising dire retribution in the event of any attack on Iran.…

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Eyewitness dismisses MoD cover-up

Ufologists will doubtless be delighted that an eyewitness to the "Welsh Roswell" - the crash and burn of an alien spacecraft in North Wales’s Berwyn Mountains - has spoken out to dismiss the Ministry of Defence's explanation of the incident.…

Loyalties divided

Galaxy S owners who accept Samsung's offer of updated firmware will invalidate their warranty according to Vodafone, which wishes to remain the only source of official upgrades.…

We'll spare you for $50k

A software engineer form York has been left nonplussed after a group of hired guns from the Yemen Arab Republic claimed to have been contracted to "terminate" him with extreme prejudice.…

Putting Ireland on the map

Google plans to hire 200 people in Dublin, Ireland, where it's currently setting up a new ops division.…

Hitting New York next month

Bank of America and Visa will be running trials of NFC technology next month but the network operators won't be involved this time, as companies sidestep the traditional process.…

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No discord, no spin

When Seagate announced a flash controller partnership with Samsung doubts and rumours were raised about the health of its existing flash controller partnership with LSI. Would Samsung supplant LSI? Would the Seagate Pulsar solid state drive (SSD) with LSI technology in its controller, continue to ship? Would LSI ship the PCIe flash card it had developed with Pulsar SSDs on it?…

Back in court next month

The Metropolitan Police's eCrime unit has charged 12 people with fraud and money laundering offences connected to iTunes.…

Software update will fix slowdowns, apparently

iPhone 3G owners who have installed iOS 4 and regretted it can take heart. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has apparently promised a software update "soon" that may bring the handset back up to speed.…

Huawei-made R201 out on pay monthly

Vodafone has launched the R201 mobile hotspot, which first emerged last week.…

Delphi in a Discotheque

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If viewers are warned

Broadcasters can charge people for TV text message votes received after voting has closed as long as the closing time is made clear to viewers, premium rate phone regulator PhonepayPlus (PPP) has said.…

Send us your original space-based wakeup tunes

NASA has invited Joe Public to vote on which two wakeup songs will rouse the crew of Discovery's 1 November STS-133 mission, and hopes musicians will rise to the challenge of writing some original music for the last shuttle flight when Endeavour blasts off on STS-134 on 26 February 2011.…

Number one DRAM deliverer

Goliath just got bigger; Samsung expanded its lead at the top of the DRAM market last quarter, shipping more memory than anyone else and at prices above the industry average.…

Wants vSphere-like magic

I meant to write about these guys earlier, but a vacation (and general laziness) kept it from happening in a timely manner.…

Lie gets halfway round the world before truth gets its boots on

Swedish prosecutors made public accusations of rape and molestation against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and then quickly dropped them over the weekend.…

I Like.com a lot, come play with me

Google has bought Like.com in its latest social networking takeover.…

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007-style gadgetry for geeks

Review My Victorinox CyberTool multiplex knife goes with me everywhere. But while it's bloody useful of disassembling hardware and putting it back together, it's not exactly compact. Ditto your average Leatherman multi-tool.…

VMware? IBM? Can't touch us

If Oracle and Sun Microsystems have anything in common - and as the poster children for Silicon Valley's IT upstarts, they have much in common - it is that they are not afraid to say they have the best technology and no one can touch them. That, in a nutshell, was what Oracle's top techies spent hours trying to convince the world in a webcast presentation going over the myriad server and desktop virtualization products that come from the merged Oracle and Sun.…

Useful || fun ! pointless; // for coders*

Part two: Previously, The Reg pointed sysadmins toward a slew of iPad apps that might brighten their workaday worlds. The target market for today's second installment of our iPad-app round-up is coders.…

A taste of the past week's tech

In the past seven days, Reg Hardware reviewed many products from the worlds of consumer electronics, gaming, photography and mobile communications.…

Does Amazon make sense at 100% use?

Vijay Gill — one of the brains that oversees Google's epic internal network — has questioned the economics of so-called cloud computing. Or least, the sort of cloud computing practiced by Amazon.com, whose EC2 service offers up instant access to compute power via the interwebs. If your infrastructure is in use around the clock, rather than just here and there, he argues, it may be cheaper to own and operate your own gear.…

...for your own good

Apple has applied for a patent covering an elaborate series of measures to automatically protect iPhone owners from thieves and other unauthorized users. But please withhold the applause.…

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Novel feature: usefulness

LG says that its upcoming tablet, set for worldwide release before the end of this year, will compete against Apple's iPad by being, well, useful.…

Neglect is no excuse

Maverick Meerkat is set to become the last version of Ubuntu that'll run on Oracle's Sparc, ending a four-year relationship.…

Dead and loving it

Google's Nexus One phone was a flop as a sold-direct-to-consumer "superphone," but according to the company, it's a huge hit in its new incarnation as a developer platform.…

Ubuntu and other Debians

Google has introduced a Linux incarnation of the online voice and video chat client that integrates with Gmail and other Google services.…

Bespoke hyperscale server biz softens

Large corporations are not buying servers, storage and PCs like it is 1999, and neither are their SMB counterparts, but if Dell's numbers for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 are any indication, they are acting a bit like it is early 2008 before the bottom dropped out of the global economy.…

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AoE, iSCSI or FC?

You The Expert: We're moving to a world in which all storage network protocols run over Ethernet. That means both file and block. There's no dispute about running file access over Ethernet but the block world is squaring up for a three-way tussle.…

Tailsitter two-stroke 'V-Bats' drop off surprise packages

DARPA, the US military research bureau occasionally prone to embarrassing tumbles from the teetering kitchen stool of unreasonable risk while groping wildly for the inaccessible biscuit tin of technological dominance secreted atop the unscalable refrigerator of unfeasibility, has done it again.…

Android licensees risk the WinMobile Disease - analyst

One of the oldest mottos at Vulture Central is Show Us The Money. There's one even better, I think, which is Show Us The Profits. Are there any? If there are, where are they going?…

Cover one eye, stand on one leg

Of all the miracles captured by Google Street View, the public convenience that disappears when you walk past it could be one of the strangest. To see this spectacle, position yourself here on Liverpool's Lodge Lane in Toxteth. You will see the loo behind the bus stop.…

Cascading fail

Malware may have been a contributory cause of a fatal Spanair crash that killed 154 people two years ago.…

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Worldwide PC chip units and sales rise in Q2

Usually, PC processor shipments fall moving from the first quarter to the second, but in the wake of the economic meltdown, trends continue to wiggle in funny ways as a new level of normality tries to establish itself. Which is why PC chip unit shipments and revenues rose sequentially in the second quarter, according to IDC.…

Security vendors react to blockbuster deal

Security vendors have welcomed Intel's $7.7bn acquisition of McAfee as confirmation of the importance of security in the future of computing but warned plans to embed security in chips will pose difficult technical challenges and may upset existing partners.…

No win, no fee law firm deal

Struggling tape and disk array data protection vendor Overland Storage is suing BDT, a Germany-based tape automation supplier for using its patented technology unlawfully.…

Behemoth acting alone is suspicious

Google's Wave has crashed, but the trick for Google is to learn the right lessons from its failure.…

Sets telescopic sights on Vulture 1

Our Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme continues to advance on multiple fronts, with the Vulture 1-X structure coming along nicely, a Mark 2 release mechanism ready for testing and our logistics team pondering just how to get the maximum bangs for bucks from launch day - when it finally arrives.…

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Adam Sandler and Tom Cruise to play leading roles, perhaps?

Facebook boydroid Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the only web kingpin to be portrayed on the silver screen, as a film about Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page has reportedly been optioned.…

Even if they are making less money...

The UK's mobile sector has never carried more traffic, but revenue was down last year for the first time ever as users demanded and got more service for less money.…

ideal for Skypers and gamers

Giveaway Plantronics' .Audio 646 headset is one of the smartest USB-connected stereo headsets out there, and Reg Hardware was one pair to give away to one lucky reader.…

LHC-spawned black hole gobbling it from within?*

Imagery from a NASA spacecraft has revealed that the Moon has shrunk significantly in recent times: indeed, instruments placed by the Apollo astronauts are thought to have recorded the rumbling, crunching sounds of lunar shrinkage carrying on in just the last few decades.…

Strip for me, baby

Virus authors have developed a strain of malware that attempts to con users into uninstalling legitimate security packages.…

Power, performance and (now) protection

Analysis Intel's surprise $7.76bn acquisition of McAfee is not only the biggest pure-play security deal in history, but the most significant statement of intent by an IT superpower since Microsoft launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative back in 2002.…

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Aims to avoid future pants-down incidents

The Information Commissioner plans to appoint a panel of experts to advise his office on new technologies, following criticism it has been caught off-guard by emerging privacy threats.…

Can you see what it is yet? Nope!

Google's Australian tentacle has been slammed for censoring a political party advert which had already aired on TV.…

A declining share measured is still declining

Nokia is to buy analytics service Motally, providing the technology to measure precisely how few people are using Nokia phones these days.…

Parklife up in clouds

Salesforce.com jacked up its outlook for the year yesterday, after reporting second quarter sales that beat Wall Street expectations on revenues but which saw net income slide.…

Like EMC's FAST but for consumers

OCZ is extending its RevoDrive PCIe flash card to deliver automated hot data placement on solid state storage from a direct-attached SATA hard disk drive, using adaptive cache storage management software.…

Copper bottomed tech plan

The Metropolitan Police Service has outlined a number of IT plans aimed at improving its information processes.…

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Even better if you've got a shop too

Online retail sales hit £5bn in the month of July thanks mainly to rubbish UK weather pushing people onto the internet to book last-minute holidays.…

What's an Ovi?

The world's biggest mobile company is to remove the obscure and confusing "Nokia" branding from its key strategic music service, Comes With Music, and lavish it with the world-renowned and highly respected "Ovi" brand, instead.…

The fast, the furious and the expensive

As Apple shuts down Quattro Wireless in favour of its own advertising platform iAds, it seems that RIM is looking to make a similar move into mobile advertising.…

Windows 7 tablet out sooner

HP will bring its WebOS-based tablet to market early next year, a company executive has stated.…

It's all working now - apparently

Orange UK tells us the network snafu that's been leaving customers with slow or broken data connections is now fixed, so any remaining problems aren't its fault.…

Episode three imminent

The BBC will post the third in its series of free, downloadable Doctor Who games "soon", the Corporation said today.…

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Trevor's got a plan to save the internet

Sysadmin blog The security defenses available to us are clumsy and inadequate. Anti-malware applications are grand at dealing with well known threats, but pathetic and worthless at dealing with emerging ones. Software vendors are too entrenched in politics, feasibility studies and bad attempts at public relations to bother to properly and expediently patch their software.…

The three Ss: security, security, security

In its biggest acquisition ever, Intel has pledged to spend $7.6bn for security firm McAfee in a bid to add security to its portfolio of mostly chippy stuff. There are lots of stories all over webdom covering this, including the Reg's own from John Leyden. A CRN think piece discusses more background and talks about how Intel and McAfee have been working together for nearly two years on more closely integrating security and hardware.…

Worryingly, experiments include human cells and flies

Once again disregarding the warnings of science fiction, boffins in America are seeking to develop technology which will allow human parts to be frozen indefinitely in organ banks for use in on-demand transplants.…

We few, we happy few

IBM is starting an apprentice scheme for the first time which might just rescue people who got bad news in the post from yesterday's A-level results.…

Just keep taking the tablets

SanDisk has announced a postage stamp-sized flash iSSD product for tablet computers at the Flash Memory Summit, with capacity ranging from 4GB to 64GB.…

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Indecent exposure kicks off lively afternoon in Washington

A Washington state US Marine reservist was earlier this week cuffed following a lively Tuesday afternoon which saw him dress in a child's banana costume, indecently expose himself and wave a shotgun in the street while shouting "something or other about white supremacy".…

Micro Four-Thirds touchscreen tour de force

Review The Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 is another addition to the growing Micro Four Thirds family of cameras. I think we know the drill now; cuter form factor for a traditional interchangeable lens system, similar features to a DSLR but no reflex mirror, and a bit more discreet.…

Scoops up assets of crashed startup

Remember ParaScale and direct access to cloud storage? The start-up crash-landed in June and Hitachi Data Systems has just bought the intellectual property assets and engineering team.…

OpenGL gurus sought

A version of Flash is being built using Java, two years after Adobe Systems opened the player's closed formats to external inspection.…

Upload your 'installable web apps'

Google is now allowing developers to upload applications to the as-yet-un-open Chrome Web Store, an online gallery of web applications and web extensions for the company's Chrome browser and its upcoming Chrome OS operating system.…

Ain't no cure for binary-planting blues

About 200 Windows applications are vulnerable to remote code-execution attacks that exploit a bug in the way the programs load binary files for the Microsoft operating system, a security researcher said Thursday.…

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But margins shrink

Dell revenues climbed 22 per cent to $15.5bn in the quarter ending July 30, thanks largely to increased demand among corporate customers.…

Farewell profit leap

Mark Hurd, the ousted president, chief executive officer, and chairman of IT giant Hewlett-Packard, turned in a decent final quarter.…

Beyond 'WTF?'

Analysis Intel and McAfee made a surprise announcement early Thursday that the chip megamaker plans to acquire the security-software giant in a $7.68bn all-cash deal, and across the technical and financial communities, the response was a nearly unanimous "WTF?"…

We'll see...

An Australian seller of videogame modchips claims Sony's PlayStation 3 console has been jailbroken by a hack that allows users to run backup and home-brewed copies of games — not to mention titles that have been pirated.…

'Just go update already'

The Linux kernel has finally been purged of a privilege-escalation vulnerability that for at least half a decade allowed untrusted local users to gain unfettered rights to the operating system's most secure locations.…

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They have candy. We have trees

Mozilla recently unveiled a fresh Firefox interface designed to better organize open tabs, and as this "Tab Sets" prototype — née Tab Candy — works its way into the Firefox 4 beta, Opera would like you to know that it's been offering something similar for ages.…

W3C steps beyond the browser

The W3C is planning a set of tests for developers to easily and accurately measure the performance of web applications.…

Mobile broadband growth area too

The decline in music industry revenues slowed to 0.8 per cent this year due to buoyant single sales and increased non-physical digital music consumption, according to media and telecoms regulator Ofcom.…

Woe goes on with no sign of a fix, nothing on website

Orange UK has admitted that its data network is having all kinds of trouble, and that the problem is ongoing with no scheduled fix.…

New top flack appointed

Flummoxed IT giant Hewlett-Packard has hired executive search firm Spencer Stuart to help it quickly and quietly find a new chief executive officer, after Mark Hurd resigned amid a sex and expense reporting scandal on 6 August.…

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Better than the rest

Lenovo's financial results for its first quarter ended 30 June 2010 show it has